Tag: fiction
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TRUE STORM!
Today marks a milestone: today, True Storm, third and final instalment in the True Born Trilogy, officially hits stores. Yeehaaawww! So you might be wondering: how does it feel to end a trilogy? I feel like a mother whose last baby has just gone off to college, leaving me wondering what to do with my…
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True Storm Cover Reveal
It’s here! The cover for the third and final book of the True Born series, True Storm, is finally set to get it’s own Reveal party. Are you ready? And….here it IS! What do you think? Let me know! And I want to send a huge shout of filled with love to all my…
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A YA Manifesto
Kids are not kids. Because kids are not kids, let’s not write Y/A books as though youth are young — and everything else that word implies: naive, lacking in experience, and requiring a certain padded version of existence.
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How to write a trilogy (in three easy steps)
A couple of weeks ago I penned the last sentence in the True Born Trilogy. Now that I’ve finished a draft of the third novel (whose title I’m not sure I’m at liberty to tell you yet – but book two, True North, is slated for release in April 2017) I feel like I’ve really…
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Afterglow
Writing is courage. There is first the courage of facing the blank page, and by extension, your own true self. The second is the bravery it takes to share that multiplicity of selves with others and the world, knowing that your book-selves will likely face endless rejections. Then there is the courage you need in…