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Not long ago, I was deep in the query trenches. They don’t call it the trenches for nothing. Trenches are not pleasant; in fact, people die in trenches. For me, it was also where my passion, creativity, and ambition went to die. One day last week, a switch flipped. I had received two more demoralizing […]

There’s a ton of yummy food in my upcoming YA novel, Rainbow State; and I want to share the recipes so you can enjoy it in real life, not just in reading life! For this first installment of Rainbow Recipes, I chose desert (natch’). Dessert is always a good place to start and after all, […]

My Ya Novel Is Set In Hawaii, but not for the reason you think So this is me (on the left). I was six when this photo was taken. It was 1978 and I was very excited to wear this DIY grass skirt and floral lei. My parents took me and my younger sister, Karla […]