everyone’s a critic, and most people are DJs
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
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
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
I just finished reading The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai. The protagonist is a children’s librarian, and for that reason alone, I wanted to read it. Bonus: it turned out to… Read more
Last week J.K. Rowling spoke at Lincoln Center. It was her only U.S. appearance to promote THE CASUAL VANACY, and Rebecca Serle and I GOT TICKETS! Not only that, we… Read more
It will probably come as no surprise that my friend and I have launched a chocolate blog. We are on a very serious quest to eat all the chocolate. And… Read more
Saturday, October 27, 7 – 8:15pm, at Noella Brew Bar in Brooklyn, NY: Olivia Birdsall and I will be reading from our YA novels, speaking on the writing process, and… Read more
So many of my favorite bands have new albums coming out this July/August/September that I am worried I’ll lose track of which ones I want to buy and on what… Read more
In October, I’m going to Birmingham, Alabama, for their annual SCBWI conference. Birmingham! I have never been there before. I haven’t spent much time at all in the South, actually…. Read more
The thing about life is that people always want to know what you’re going to do next. They are sort of interested in what you have done, and maybe slightly… Read more
If you’ve read Past Perfect, you know that the protagonist, Chelsea, and her best friend, Fiona, love ice cream so much that they have decided to devote their summer to… Read more
As you may recall if you are a diehard fan of leilasales.com, last summer my friends and I went on a Fire Island writers’ retreat. This year we decided to… Read more
I have wanted to go to Cuba for years– possibly since I first saw The Buena Vista Social Club, and definitely since I first saw Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights…. Read more