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Writing is my therapy.
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Therapy
Writing
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All my books center around death in some way.
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Center
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Having a book published whenever is a huge honor.
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Honor
Published
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Being more happy than not helps you get up every day.
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Happy
Day Every Day More
Every Day
Day Every Day Happy
Helps
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Sexuality is very fluid, but I never chose to be gay.
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Fluid
Gay
Sexuality
Chose
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'They Both Die At The End' is about coming face to face with your own mortality.
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Mortality
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I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.
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Grief
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I'm always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives... or doesn't.
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Survives
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There are happy stories out there, but I think some of them may raise false expectations for teens.
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Teens
False
Raise
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Especially with grief and heartbreak, you can go through these things and think, 'I will never be whole again.'
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Heartbreak
Grief
Will Never Go
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Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.
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Absence
Loss
Devastating
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'History Is All You Left Me' is about the loss of your first love and how you move on beyond that and if you can.
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History
First Love
Left
Loss
Love Your Me
Love History Me
Beyond
First
Move
Move On
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The book industry is all about community, and it never really feels like anyone is competing against anyone, thankfully.
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Competing
Thankfully
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I'm building this reputation as YA heartbreaker, I know. Some people like 'happily ever after,' but I don't think that's me.
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Ever After
Reputation
Happily
Ya
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When I really want to be comforted myself, what I look for is a story about how somebody could survive something really difficult.
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Difficult
Comforted
Survive
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My favorite uncle died when I was eleven, and that was two months after 9/11, so that was a particularly difficult time with my family.
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Died
Eleven
Months
Difficult Time
Particularly
Uncle
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I had definitely missed the literary development game with Paper Lantern Lit, and writing exclusively wasn't giving me complete fulfillment.
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Development
Fulfillment
Giving
Lit
Paper
Complete
Lantern
Missed
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I was very lucky to befriend many authors before even signing with an agent, and they were all so supportive of me when I told them I was in the middle of my first book.
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Book
Lucky
Middle
Signing
Supportive
Agent
Authors
Befriend
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I don't think I'm capable of giving a character every possible victory, no matter how much I love them, without feeling as if their ending isn't genuine to their actual trials.
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Capable
Genuine
Trials
Actual
Ending
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There will be opportunities for hope and happiness, and happiness will return to your life, but you will always feel that loss if that person really meant that great a deal to you.
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Loss
Return
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For me, I remember being 19 and coming out as bi to all of my friends. I'd had girlfriends, and all of these experiences and such, and then, as I got older, I started identifying as gay.
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Identifying
Girlfriends
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It wasn't until I hit 20 that I became an obsessive reader, I think, which feels a little funny considering I was a bookseller for five years and have been reviewing YA novels for four years.
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Considering
Obsessive
Reviewing
Ya
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Whereas Books of Wonder excels with children's literature, McNally Jackson is where I go for my adult new releases, and no, it has nothing to do with the fact that Taylor Swift shops there, too.
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Release
Shops
Jackson
Swift
Taylor
Taylor Swift
Whereas
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Death is the one - the one thing we don't have many answers for. We understand how people die, but we don't know what comes next, and that's something that's always fascinated and disturbed me and frustrated me.
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Disturbed
Fascinated
Frustrated
Death Me Die
The One Thing
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When you're overthinking a thought like the way I do, I can get completely pulled away from something I'm in the middle of because my thought channel just won't help me get from point A to point B without any difficulty.
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Difficulty
Me I Can Way
Channel
Pulled
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My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my main characters come from single households. That was something that, when I lived in South Bronx, that's what it was like.
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Bronx
Households
Published
South Bronx
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I'm definitely of the 'Harry Potter'-transfigured-me-into-a-reader-and-writer generation. And that's really all I read throughout my teen years, because I really devoted all my time to writing and reading friends' fan-fiction.
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Teen
Devoted
My Time
All My Time
Generation
Harry
Teen Years
Throughout
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I have OCD and, literally, walking on the left, needing things to be in even numbers with few exceptions. One and seven, any number that ends in seven, that's all me. All the tics like the pulling of the ear and scratching of the palms, all me.
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Ends
Left
Pulling
Seven
Walking
Ear
Exceptions
Number
Few
Literally
Needing
Scratching
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The Strand prides itself for its '18 miles of books,' and they are not kidding - that store goes on for da-a-a-a-ys. There are carts outside with dollar books, all sorts of fun merchandise inside, and an extensive selection of reduced priced books. If you're looking to buy a $30 hardcover for $20, The Strand is your new best friend.
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Best Friend
Merchandise
Miles
Selection
Best Your Fun
Dollar
Extensive
Hardcover
Reduced
Store
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