News & Publications

Events
DONUTS has been selected as one of five finalists for the 2022 SCBWI Golden Kite Award
DONUTS has been named a YALSA 2022 Best Fiction for Young Adults
DONUTS has been named a YALSA 2022 Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults
The Evening Sun sat down with me for another great conversation
The Baltimore Sun/Carroll County Times interviewed me about writing and teaching after the release of DONUTS
DONUTS has been chosen as A Junior Library Guild Selection!
DONUTS will be sold in translation in Germany!
School Library Journal - YA Authors Nic Stone and Jared Reck Chat About Crafting Characters, Their Paths to Publication, and More
Those Who Teach, Can - an original essay for Random House Teachers and Librarians
Get Underlined - Authors Jared Reck and Scott Reintgen Tell Us About Their Writing Processes and Inspirations
What Book Hooked You? Podcast with Brock Shelley
All the Wonders - Podcast with Matthew Winner
Nerdy Book Club wrote perhaps my favorite review ever
10 YA Books John Green Fans Will Love - SHORT HISTORY is highlighted on this awesome list on ezvid!
SHORT HISTORY has been named a Carolyn W. Field Honor Book for 2018 by the Pennsylvania Library Association!
The Evening Sun, my hometown newspaper, ran an article on me and SHORT HISTORY. So cool!
Audible chose SHORT HISTORY for their Editors Select list for September! Check out their stunning review!
Hello Giggles included SHORT HISTORY in its "18 books you'll want to read in September." Also on that list? Salman Rushdie and Hillary Clinton. Whoa.
B&N Teen Blog has SHORT HISTORY as one of "34 of Our Most Anticipated September YA Books"
ReadBrightly picked SHORT HISTORY as one of its "17 Must-Read YA Books of Fall 2017"
Absolutely blown away by this review from Fiktshun blog.
Hypable has a sneak peak at the first two chapters--check it out!
School Library Journal has included SHORT HISTORY in their Popular Picks for July!
Publishers Weekly gave SHORT HISTORY a wonderful review--check it out!

​BNTeenBlog has included SHORT HISTORY in their list of most anticipated debuts of the second half of 2017, calling my prose "realistically profane." Which, you know. 

SHORT HISTORY will be also be sold in translation in Turkey!

SHORT HISTORY has been chosen as A Junior Library Guild Selection!

SHORT HISTORY will be sold in translation in the Czech Republic and France!

NYMBC - Check out this awesome review from the amazing Not Your Mother's Book Club!

McDaniel interview - My first author interview, from McDaniel College, where I took some amazing grad courses in their WCYA Program.

Deal Announcement - My wonderful agent, Laura Crockett, gives her account of our publishing journey on her blog.

2023

June 30 - Millersville University Summer Literacy Institute ​
June 6 & 20 - Teen SummerZine  Lancaster, PA
April 14, 2023 - Aaron's Books  Lititz, PA

2022

March 15, 2022 - SCBWI Virtual Golden Kite Gala

2021

April 23, 2021 - TxLA
  • Tayshas Reading List Panel - Online panel discussion with Shaun David Hutchinson, Brigid Kemmerer, Stacey Lee, Margaret Rogerson, and Laura Amy Schlitz  
June 8, 2021 - DONUTS Launch!
  • 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. - The Reader's Cafe - Hanover, PA
June 14, 2021 - In Conversation with Award-Winning Author Misa Sugiura & Claire Kann
July 15, 2021 - nErD Camp PA 
August 3, 2021 - York County Libraries
  • 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. - Online discussion includes free books for teens! Love our libraries! Details here.

2020

Didn't actually happen.

2019

August 9-10, 2019 - YA FEST PA  Easton, PA
October 12, 2019 - PCTELA  State College, PA​
October 30, 2019 - KSLA Conference  Hershey, PA
November 8, 2019 - Millersville University Literary Festival  Millersville, PA

2018

October 15, 2018 - PaLA Conference  Harrisburg, PA
  • Carolyn W. Field Award Luncheon 
  • Author Panel with Cordelia Jensen, Laurie Morrison, and Lauren Greenberg
May 19, 2018 - Gaithersburg Book Festival  Gaithersburg, MD
  • Hilarious and Heartbreaking Teen Fiction with Ashley Woodfolk, author of The Beauty That Remains: In one story, music brought Autumn, Shay, and Logan together. Death might pull them apart: when tragedy strikes each of them, somehow music is no longer enough. Another is an unrequited love story, a fiercely funny and heart-wrenching novel about love, longing, and what happens when life as you know it changes in an instant. Signing to follow.

2017

June 23-25, 2017 - ALA Annual Conference  Chicago, IL
  • 6/24 - 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Teen Lunch, with E. Lockhart and Nic Stone
  • 6/24 - 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. - Signing with Random House Children’s Books, Booth #3711 
  • 6/24 - 4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. - ALA PopTop Stage: The Future of YA: A Debut Author Panel, featuring David Barclay Moore, Nic Stone, Jared Reck, and moderated by E. Lockhart
  • 6/24 - 6:30 p.m. - Random House Children's Books Middle Grade & YA Author Dinner
August 2017 - Pre-Publication Author Buzz Tour 
  • 8/16 - Chicago
  • 8/17 - NYC
September 23, 2017 - Baltimore Book Festival  ​Baltimore, MD
  • 9/23 - 3:00 p.m. - in conversation with Matthew Winner: live podcast of All the Wonders, on the Enoch Pratt Free Library Children's Stage
September 26, 2017 - SHORT HISTORY Launch Party!
  • Reader's Cafe - Hanover, PA  5:30 p.m.
September 27, 2017 - McDaniel College  Westminster, MD
  • 7:00 p.m. - McDaniel Lounge
October 15, 2017 - Southern Festival of Books  Nashville, TN
  • 3:00 - 4:00 - Young Love & Loss: Three YA Novels - panel discussion with Julie Buxbaum and Peter Bognanni, at the Nashville Public Library Teen Center
  • 4:00 - 4:30 - Signing on War Memorial Plaza
October 20-21, 2017 - Read Up Greenville  Greenville, SC
October 26, 2017 - Tattered Cover Book Store  Denver, CO
  •  Author event with the amazing Julie Buxbaum!
October 28, 2017 - Oklahoma Teen Book Con  Guthrie, OK​
November 3-6, 2017 - Anderson's YA Lit Conference  Naperville, IL
November 11, 2017 - Aaron's Books Kids' Festival  Lititz, PA