“You are ready to art harder than you’ve ever arted before. But…how?”

I wrote a piece for the March 2020 issue of The Writer magazine called Ways to Level Up, on how to push your craft and career to the next level. It’s basically a two-page Pep Talk to Self that I hope other writers will find useful as well. (A sample: “Stop containing and confining this thing that is so important to you. Light it up. Let it roar. What if this were the day, the week, the month, the year that you let your burning ambitions take over?”) Find it here (PDF) or on newsstands now. Thanks for reading.

As a lifelong fan of libraries and librarians, I was thrilled to learn that Charles Santoso’s and my picture book Watch Out for Wolf! has been named to the Texas Library Association’s 2020 2x2 Reading List, “the best of recent books meant for children aged two to grade two.” The committee read 946 books and chose 20. Find the full list here, and a deck of suggested activities and discussion points for each book here. Thank you, Texas librarians!

ICYMI: Last week I revealed the cover of my next YA novel, Nobody Knows But You, a friendship-based thriller coming from HarperCollins/Quill Tree Books on September 8. (Writing this book was ridiculously fun. I am SO EXCITED for you to read it.) Find a plot summary, brief excerpt, and preorder links here. The illustration is by Hokyoung Kim, with cover design by Molly Fehr. Isn’t it gorgeous?

P.S. If you haven’t yet read my first YA novel, good news: Always Forever Maybe is now available in paperback!