Young Adult Fiction Writer

A very merry Thumbkitty

  Dear Monkey: The only reason I have not yet bitten your face completely off is that I do not wish to have the taste of your face in my mouth. No love, Thumbkitty

Tea and Sugar

It’s 2:20 pm, and we all know what that means.  Time for tea and sugar! Today’s tea: loose-leaf generic Market Spice from the Winco Foods bulk section. Today’s sugar: slightly stale and not very cinnamony cinnamon Satans obtained for $0.25 per pound during a post-Halloween candy purge of the Winco Foods bulk section Today’s tea [...]

Four things I changed about my creative process…

…in the year leading up to signing with my agent: Read slower. When you’re in grad school, you’re expected to read an average of 500 pages a week, so by necessity you learn to skim. After a while, it becomes habit for your eye to glide over the page and gather the gist while letting [...]

  • The Wicked and the Just

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

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