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Krista Van Dolzer

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I'm a stay-at-home mom by day and a children's author by bedtime. I live with my husband and four kids in Layton, Utah, where I watch too much college football and look for my dead people online. I'm the author of THE SOUND OF LIFE AND EVERYTHING (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, May 2015), DON'T VOTE FOR ME (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, August 2015), and EARTH TO DAD (Capstone, Fall 2018) as well as the forthcoming THE MULTIPLYING MYSTERIES OF MOUNT TEN (Bloomsbury Children's, Winter 2019). ...more

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The End

Not a very auspicious title for a new blog post, is it? That said, I'm afraid it's true. This will be my final blog post on www.kristavandolzer.blogspot.com for reasons I'll outline below, so I may wax nostalgic--sigh--for a handful of paragraphs.
When I started this blog almost sixteen(!) years ago, I had a few specific goals: find a critique partner or two with whom I could trade manuscripts, sta Read more of this blog post »
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“Love was holding someone's hand when you wanted to escape.”
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“Lots of folks know stuff we don't, but that doesn't make 'em smart.”
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“Sometimes a little good can grow out of a lot of bad.”
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