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I’m going to get a head start on my New Year’s resolution to actually update this blog, because I have something exciting to share! The paperback of Girls Made of Snow and Glass will be released on December 31 with a brand new shiny cover!

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Isn’t it beautiful??? And I can tell you from experience that it is even more stunning in person—that pearlescent paper stock is AMAZING.

So if you’re more of a paperback person than a hardcover person, or if you’ve got holiday gift cards to bur...

So any time I find out something good about my book, I'm torn between two fairly equal thought processes:

1) If you share this good thing with people, they will think you're obnoxious and braggy and self-absorbed!

2) If you don't share this good thing with people, you are SABOTAGING your book's success and it will be ALL YOUR FAULT.

My brain is a fun place! 

Okay, so logically I know that neither one of these things is completely true, but as a sort of compromise, I've decided to hoard up these g...

Since the first ARCs for Girls Made of Snow and Glass are beginning to circulate, I wanted to mention a couple of possible trigger/content warnings for the book so that readers know what they're getting into and can make informed choices. This list is incomplete, of course, because it would be impossible to list out every potential warning for every potential reader, but here are some prominent ones that I thought worth noting:

Parental abuse--mostly verbal/emotional abuse and some physical in...

Hello internet! Hello world! If you're reading this in the first place, you probably know that I have a book coming out this fall (September 5, to be precise). That's still several months ahead, though, so in the meantime, here are some things you can do if you're interested in my debut YA novel, Girls Made of Snow and Glass:

You can preorder it from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, IndieBound, etc.!You can read this interview I did where I talk a little about my inspiration for writing a Snow White...