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This just in: Waiting for You is on the Kid's Indie Next List for Summer 2009! These are books nominated by indie booksellers nationwide. Warm fuzzies for you, indie booksellers! I'll post the list when it's up on IndieBound, but I already know that Sarah Dessen's much anticipated Along for the Ride is included. For now, you can see the 14 teen books on their Spring 2009 list.

I've received some reports that both Waiting for You and the paperback of Take Me There have been found in bookstores

This weekend was all about the summer breeze. I really wanted to borrow a kite to fly, but I didn't get a chance to spend as much time outside as I wanted because I'm on deadline. Having all the windows open so the summer breeze flowed in and listening to the mourning doves and deciding which flip-flops to wear later was happy times, so it's all good.

Melissa Walker, author and journalist and Readergirl and like a zillion other things because she's multitalented like that, has posted a Cover St

Time is really zipping by these days. I think it started around the time I resigned from teaching and became a full-time author, which was almost two years ago. But this warp-speed time phenomenon does not apply to book releases. It's always so hard for me to wait for my new book to come out! So I'm stoked that there are only three more weeks to go before Waiting for You is released on May 14. I have four fun contests planned for you to win signed copies of Waiting for You. You can also wi

As part of my Waiting for You blog tour (May 1-14), I'll be visiting ten book blogs. At each one, I'm going to discuss one of my Top Ten High School Myths. These are the things we've always heard are true about high school that are actually such lies. The first myth on my list is, "These are the best years of your life." That one's always a hoot and a holler. I've already written the list, but one of the myths isn't working out the way I thought it would. I seem to be stuck.

Here's where yo

There's another pre-blog tour interview with me at Innovative Teen. Click on over to find out my favorite scenes from When It Happens and Take Me There.

The mourning doves are back! I love these guys. Their sound always mellows me out. Combined with all of the pink flowers around here, I'm totally loving spring.

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Another fun spring thing is watching New Yorkers. Most of us usually walk around really quickly without looking up much. But these are the days when New Yorkers slow down a bit and t

I was interviewed at Katie's Book Blog. This is a relatively new blog, so go on over and share the love. Thanks for a great interview, Katie!

This is day three of keeping my hair away from water. See, my hair is not naturally this straight. It is naturally a curly, frizzy horror show. So I have a Japanese straight perm. It's a very long day when I have to go in to get it retouched (five or six hours!), but so worth it because then I have straight hair for another year (which I sort of get a

...Waiting for You will be released! I'm stoked.

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Wait! I have another book release happening on May 14. The paperback edition of Take Me There will also be out in the world.

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I'll be having a few contests to win copies of both books soon. My biggest contest will involve you taking a picture with one of the floor displays that will also appear on May 14 in Barnes & Noble stores, as well as some indie bookshops. Thank you, indie bookshops! So keep an eye out for the floor displays, which will i

Your TGIM thought of the day is brought to you by The Holiday. This movie is so good. I love this scene in which Jack Black takes Kate Winslet into a Blockbuster and shows her some stuff. Note: his character composes music for movies. Sassy!

More like calm before the flurry of happy activities.

I've been here before. I'm in between handing in a revision and waiting for my book release next month. It's a time when everything seems to slow down. And then all of a sudden, bam! Everything starts at once and I can hardly get any laundry done. So when the dryer ate all of my quarters yesterday and there was this whole production of going out for more quarters and waiting for the timer to run out so I could try the other dryer and it ju

Sometimes readers ask me what the hardest part about being an author is. My job has two main parts. One part has to do with the things that don't involve writing books, like blogging and social networking and writing back to readers (all of which I love, by the way). Within the writing books part, I would have to say that a few things about the process are not so easy.

One of the most challenging things about writing a book is translating feelings onto a page in a way that captures exactly wh