Hey, guys, I posted a giveaway on Goodreads.

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Happy (almost) birthday to one of my favorite people in the world, Sarah Mlynowski!

And happy belated birthday to Sarah’s newest book, out earlier this week:


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I wish I could take credit for this cleverness, but the truth was, I got the idea off my friend Ella’s facebook page, to buy new socks for the new year, to symbolize starting 2013 off on the right foot.

So here are my friend Amy’s and my feet, just after midnight.


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I know this may be cheesy, but each year, I like to take stock of what I did in the preceding twelve months, and think of resolutions for the new year-more like aspirations: what I’d like to do, who I’d like to meet, the ideas I’d like to turn into books. Given that the end of 2012 is just two days away, I guess it’s time to get on that. But ( Read more... )

This is why I go to Writopia every Tuesday afternoon.

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My friend Rebecca Serle recently tweeted about how reading the late, great Nora Ephron is basically a cure-all. Last night, not necessarily in need of any cures, but still wanting a little pick-me-up, I picked up my well-worn copy of Ephron’s last book, I REMEMBER NOTHING.

And when I finished that, I moved onto I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK. Here is a ( Read more... )

I remember Gilda Radner.

Not because I knew her personally. Not even because I knew her from TV. Though I have a distinct memory of watching the news the night she died. They showed footage of Gilda’s rendition of “The Way We Were.” I was eleven years old and I turned to my mom: “She’s actually not that good.”

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I’ve posted this recipe before, and recently I’ve gotten a couple requests for it. So here you go, my friend Jen W’s famed Cookie Brownie Pie:

What you need:
2 graham cracker pie crusts
1 box of Dunkin Hines Chewy brownie mix
package of cookie dough (I used the Pillsbury breakables)

What to do:
Preheat oven to 350
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Thanks to my stepdad, I’ve gained two brothers, a sister, and five nieces and nephews-in my (totally objective) opinion, they are the five BEST nieces and nephews in the whole entire world.

My stepsister lives in Lancaster, PA, where I happened to have a school event last week-the first event for book #4, A CASE OF THE MEANIES.


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My friend Lauren Oliver’s fifth book, and her second middle grade novel, is out TODAY: THE SPINDLERS.


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