Interviewers often ask, “Where did you get the idea for your novel?” … We make things up…
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What I’m Reading Now
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Dad didn’t teach me not to want things, but (by example) gave me the idea that living with less could mean leading a more interesting a fulfilled life…
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I am a late bloomer. A late, late bloomer. By the end of high school, my statistics in the romance department were deplorable…
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Basing a character in a novel on a friend or family member is fraught with perilous peril…
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When it comes to looks, the boy love-interest in a YA novel …
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I can identify with the pain of LGBT teens that hide their true selves from friends because I grew up in the same situation. Only different…
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The adults Harriet spies on are weird…
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Stepping into thin air… That’s exactly how it felt to write the first words of my memoir.
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I got a call from a family — one of my regular baby-sitting gigs. They paid well and had good food…
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A few months after my 16th birthday, my dad gave me a choice: Find a full-time job or work all summer as his slave…
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I’ve created a bit of a mess for myself …
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My friend likes to go out for lunch all the time. I don’t have much money, so I order something small. My friend always eats way more than I do, and then she wants to split the bill!
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Lowell ruined my life…
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But my biggest problem of all: living with my grandma the famous ADVICE COLUMNIST Miss Swoon!
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I never ever EVER thought I’d be asking myself – let alone a complete stranger – a question like this, but…
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My parents act like they’re in a perpetual state of puppy love and they have no concept of modesty …
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