Young Adult Fiction Writer

Random things = post

I’m told these will make a post: * Remember the zucchini plant in my community garden patch?  The one that slugs ate?  It’s now taken over the whole midsection of the patch and shading out the strawberries.  It’s produced five zucchini already, and two more little ones are growing.  Seriously.  Maybe being eaten by slugs [...]

The Wicked and the Just is on NetGalley!

If you are too, and you’d like to know more, click here! Bonus: Even if you’re not on NetGalley, this is also the first peek at the cover – go check it out!

WriteOn Con vlog!

Today, I’m venturing into uncharted territory: I’ll be appearing on a vlog! Some of us from The Class of 2k12 created a group vlog in which we discuss various aspects of the debut process for WriteOn Con, which is a blast in and of itself. So if you’re so inclined, you can see our vlog [...]

First pass pages!

The good: First pass pages are here! The bad: Because of a perfect storm of travel and Day Job, I have four days to review them. All 352 of them. In. Four. Days. The good: The pages are pretty clean. There’s only been a missing word here and there, plus a bunch of little tweaks [...]

  • The Wicked and the Just

    J's debut novel coming in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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