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If you haven’t yet, be sure to go check out the official SHADOWLARK cover reveal on YA Books Central for a chance to win an ARC of SHADOWLARK!

As some of you already know, at the end of this month there will take place a wondrous, super rare phenomenon… Amie Kaufman and I are going to be in the same country at the same time! WOOOO!

Yes, we’re headed to Book Expo America in NYC at the end of this month. We’re both tremendously excited–it’ll be our first time ever signing our book together, and I...

Well, as you may have noticed, there’s no Write Space post this week. Why, you ask? Because I have something totally awesome for you instead….

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THE COVER FOR SHADOWLARK IS LIVE!

Hurry on over to YA Books Central to check out the lean, green awesome machine that is SHADOWLARK’s new outfit, and enter to win an advance reader copy!

Katelyn L. asked, “What part of the writing process do you find most difficult? For example, world building, character developments, editing, etc.”

Each aspect of writing has its challenges for me, and they crop up unexpectedly. I might be as familiar with a given character as I am with my own family, and one day just suddenly struggle to get through a scene with her. Or I might just be ripping along at a good pace and then suddenly hit a huge plot hole I never saw coming and sit there for fou...

Mary O.and Bookwyrm16 both asked, “What inspired you to write SKYLARK?”

What a great question—inspiration is so hard to pinpoint! For me it comes from everything around me, from the people I talk to to the books I read, the music I hear, the movies I see. But for SKYLARK, I can actually point to a single moment that inspired the idea for the world, which then led to everything else.

I was listening to the radio in my car, and NPR was doing a segment about the energy crisis, and the various pote...

This question deals with a character in SKYLARK–there are some mild spoilerish parts in this answer! Nothing major gets revealed, but if you’re as anti-spoiler as I am and you haven’t read SKYLARK, be warned!

Carolina S. asked, “Nix is positively my favorite character! How did you come up with him?”

It’s funny–Nix is genderless, but almost everyone uses a gendered pronoun when they talk about the character, because we’re not used to saying “it” to describe sentient, animate creatures. More peop...

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Katelyn L. asked, “What was the process behind naming SKYLARK?”

The original title of SKYLARK was THE IRON WOOD. That was the title I’d called it from the very beginning. I don’t outline, but I do usually have a pretty good idea of where a story is headed, and I knew where Lark was going when she escaped. So that was th...

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