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Cress Tour 2014: Vote for a City!

My publicist has been working hard lately to pull together a great line-up of events for the Cress Tour, which will kick off on release day: February 4, 2014! She’s already settled on most of the tour cities, and we’ll be announcing those in the coming months. But like last […]

Full STEAM Ahead: My First-Ever Keynote Speech

Last Thursday I had the honor of being the keynote speaker at the 5th Annual Teen Librarian Summit in Worcester, MA. (And I was so nervous, you guys, you don’t even know.)   The focus of the summit was the STEM to STEAM movement—or bringing Arts education into the national […]

Gearing up for NaNoWriMo!

November is just around the corner, which means that writers everywhere are gearing up for the month of noveling insanity that is National Novel Writing Month! Many of you know that Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and now Heartless all started life as NaNo novels. I’m a huge fan of the draft-now, revise-later […]