BOOKS: Young Adult updates

July 18 2016

RITA Award Winner, Right Here!

If you didn’t hear my gasp of shock on social media, my first young adult book, THE ANATOMICAL SHAPE OF A HEART won the Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA Award for Young Adult Romance. In case you don’t know, these awards are basically the Oscars of romance writing, and the highest honor in the […]

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June 23 2016

U.S. Cover For Alex, Approximately

Recently, my U.S. publisher, Simon Pulse—a division of Simon and Schuster—partnered with Barnes and Noble during the first annual national teen B-fest to offer a unique opportunity to readers: YOU got to choose the cover of Alex, Approximately. This week, Barnes and Noble unveiled the winner! I think it’s absolutely beautiful, and I’m so thrilled […]

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March 25 2016

All the Awards!

Huge news, guys, so I’ll get right to it: THE ANATOMICAL SHAPE OF A HEART won a RT Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Award for BEST YA PROTAGONIST! Whaaaaat??? The other two YA award winners were DUMPLIN’, by #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy (her book also won Book of the Year!) and SIX […]

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