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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.

2018

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.

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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