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I am so proud of The Someday Daughter. Not because it came to me easily, but because I confronted so many parts of myself in its creation.
As we celebrate the power of storytelling, let these new books transport readers to exciting worlds, spark their curiosity, and inspire a lifelong love for literature.
We are here, and we are queer, and we can’t reduce our identities to the neat black-and-white that society would like us to. We can’t (and shouldn’t) reduce our stories, either.
Queer stories can be joyful. We can celebrate that joy both looking backward toward the past, standing bravely in the present, and facing the future with hope and good care for each other, always.
A few years ago, I set off on an adventure that would eventually leave me both alone and alone in the woods…for days on end.
Every writer gets the same question. Whether they write for adults or kids. Whether they are at a school or a cocktail party.
“Where did you get the idea for the book?”
I never thought of myself as a particularly religious teen. My family was Catholic because we’d always been Catholic. We ate fish on Fridays during Lent but didn’t say grace before meals. I went to Catholic elementary school, because my parents felt it was a good religious foundation and the school was strong academically, but […]
I’d start off with an intro paragraph here, but you’d probably just skip it. Let me just say that these rules only apply to me.
Middle school is the toughest age to build a collection for readers as a school librarian. Yes, I said it.
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