Blind Spot

Welcome to my stop in the YAmazing Race with MGnificent Prizes! How are you feeling? Revved up? Excited? Is your brain full of lots of books you can’t wait to read? AWESOME! If you happened to pop by here and are wondering what all the whooping and hollering is about though — let me explain. We’re doing a… Read more »

My ARCs (advance reading copies) arrived last week! It is so exciting to see my words on real book pages 🙂 and a little weird — seeing the story in a book rather than on my printed manuscript pages feels almost like someone else wrote them. It is definitely an awesome experience and I can’t… Read more »

I have been so amazed at the cover love I’v e seen since my reveal January 20th. Thank you to all who tweeted and facebooked my cover. You made my day! Since then, BLIND SPOT keeps popping up on blogs 🙂 So, with this being the month of lave and all —  I thought I’d send… Read more »

Thank you for all the awesome comments on my cover! And thank you to all those who tweeted and facebook-ed and blogged it too! It was great to see all that cover love. 🙂 As part of my cover reveal, I had giveaways: two $20 Barnes & Noble gift certificates and a signed copy of BLIND… Read more »

There’s nothing quite like seeing the artwork someone else has created to represent the words I’ve written! Wow! I am in awe! Before I get to the big unveiling, I thought I’d share a wee bit about the design process. After HMH acquired Blind Spot, several people asked me what I wanted my cover to… Read more »

#3 Oh, the Places I Had to Go: My Rocky Road Writing BLIND SPOT My novel BLIND SPOT walks a fine line between two very different genres: thriller/mystery and contemporary/literary ‘issue’ book. I found as I was writing that it is difficult to balance between the two. When I began writing BLIND SPOT, I wanted… Read more »

“Tis the season for countdowns. My personal favorites are the top 100 songs of the year or decade — especially when the radio station playing the countdown is mostly commercial-free. I also enjoy countdowns of top books because usually I haven’t read most of them — which is why I am NOT doing a ‘top… Read more »

In the words of Staind, a favorite band, It’s Been A While. I am slowly getting a handle on all this book writing stuff. The journey has been so fun, but I am finding it hard to keep up sometimes — especially now with the holidays barking at my heels. As a result, I have… Read more »

I attended the SCBWI NY conference this past weekend and was inspired, as usual, by the awesome speakers. While everyone I heard left something with me, it was Lois Lowry and Linda Sue Park that really resonated with me the most. Lois Lowry talked about the question so many people ask: Where do you get… Read more »