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  • March and April events in NYC

    03.10.2014

    I have a few events coming up in New York over the next few weeks, and you are all invited! Details: March 18, 6-8pm, Mulberry Street NYPL, 10 Jersey Street… Read more

  • Happy 50th birthday, Harriet the Spy!

    02.25.2014

    Today Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy, one of my all-time favorite books, turned 50 years old. In celebration, I wrote an article about the book and its creator for Al… Read more

  • Leila Sales’ holiday gift guide

    12.19.2013

    As I think we all know by now, books make great gifts. Here’s proof: You may be wondering which books to put under your Christmas tree (or Hanukkah menorah, though… Read more

  • This Song Will Save Your Life comes out today – plus, a contest!

    09.17.2013

    My new novel, This Song Will Save Your Life, comes out in the United States today, September 17, 2013! To celebrate, I’m running a contest. Here’s how it goes: Take… Read more

  • This Song Will Save Your Life launch events – Fall 2013

    08.24.2013

    My new novel, This Song Will Save Your Life, comes out on Tuesday, September 17! I am so excited to get to share this book with the world. Fortunately, I’ll… Read more

  • summer writing songs

    07.14.2013

    This weekend is our third annual writers’ retreat! Avid LeilaSales.com readers may recall the time we went on a writing retreat to Copake and had a dance party in our… Read more

  • response to the Boston Marathon attacks

    04.17.2013

    I wrote a response piece to Monday’s attacks on Boston, my hometown. You can read the piece on the Huffington Post, or I’m pasting the full text below. My loved… Read more

  • NYC Teen Author Festival

    03.15.2013

    The annual NYC Teen Author Festival is next week! This is my third year participating in the Festival, but my first year speaking on one of the NYPL panels. And… Read more

  • This Song Will Save Your Life cover reveal

    03.09.2013

    Yesterday MTV.com’s Hollywood Crush blog exclusively revealed the cover for my third novel, This Song Will Save Your Life! I love this cover and am so excited to share it… Read more

  • Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

    02.14.2013

    I just finished reading Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, which I hadn’t heard about before it totally cleaned up at this year’s ALA Youth Media Awards…. Read more

  • everyone’s a critic, and most people are DJs

    01.29.2013

    As you may know, my next novel, THIS SONG WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE (coming out this fall) is about a 16-year-old girl who becomes a DJ sensation. Writing this book… Read more

  • the artist is not the art

    01.17.2013

    I’m on a reading-books-for-adults kick, apparently, because not only did I just finish The Borrower, but I also recently read The Casual Vacancy (which, as you may recall, I got… Read more

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