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It's been a minute, yeah. I know. I've been busy and things have been happening, you know how it goes. 2018 has been a messy year for me, honestly - messier even than 2017, which featured a massive cross-country move with my husband and four animals. I'm glad that it's winding down.

I only had a couple of things hit the street from a publishing standpoint this year: The Agony House and a single short story, Mother Jones and the Nasty Eclipse from Apex Magazine. So it feels like I have not-so-much to show for it, and that kind of sucks - but that's not to say that I've been sitting on my hands, over here.

At present I have one partial* sitting with my YA editor at Scholastic, one full YA project being shopped around elsewhere, two partials sitting on my Tor editor's desk, and a full mystery project on my agent's desk. Maybe none of those projects will land. Maybe all of them will. You just never know. (Speaking of, yes - I finished my draft of Far-Fetched. That's the mystery project, and it topped out at 95,291 words. I'll add that to my total of fiction words composed this year, at the bottom of this post.)

And yes, I've started working on something new. I'm frankly excited about it; it's an idea I've been camping on for the last year or two, and it finally gelled to the point that I could get a draft underway. This will be a tricky one, and I only hope I have the chops to pull it off...but I'll go nuts if I don't try.

I'm not yet sure how long it'll run, but my gut says it won't be more than maybe 90k. Eh. I've been wrong before. Maybe it'll go bananas and run over 150k, that'll show me.

At any rate, here's progress on my modern gothic ghost story about a large old school that was boarded up after a shooting 22 years ago, told from the POV of two survivors, their now-teenage children, and their own parents - with Bonus! memories both faulty and true, intergenerational violence and grace alike, and thirty-one ghosts who know something the police never figured out. One part The Haunting of Hill House, one part The Frighteners, and one part Bowling for Columbine ...so...wish me luck.

Project: Kill Me Now
Deadline: none
New words written: 2554
Present total word count: 2554

Things accomplished in real life: (In the last couple of days) Put up the Christmas tree and wrapped presents; cleaned house including a crap-ton of laundry; walked the dogs; gave the eldercat her fluids; went to post office; went to Walgreens; went to grocery store; vacuumed four times because the dogs and the pine needles and ugh.

Things accomplished in fiction: Finished a draft of the first chapter, and I actually like it.

Number of fiction words so far this year: 122,680

* For non-writing/publishing folks, a "partial" is sample content and a proposal for a full project, generally speaking. My partials are usually in the 100-150 page range plus outline/proposal/etc.

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Lots of people have asked me over the years, "How did David get his scar?" So this is written in his point of view, a few months before he and Tally meet for the first time. It shows him and his crew out recruiting uglies to come to the Smoke.

Last year, I posted another Uglies short story set in the new Impostors series. Click here to read that one.

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"How David Got His Scar"
The three hoverboards approached the strange city at low speed, gliding just above the rocks and dirt of the dried-out streambed. The riders knelt or crouched, wearing camo jackets and night-vision goggles. The valley below glittered with city lights and safety fireworks, but up here only slivers of starlight cut through the trees.

"Picking up some broadcast feeds now," Croy said. He was riding at the back, his board obediently following the others' as he stared into a handscreen. Woven through his camo jacket were antennae that flowed out behind him like wings, their smart fibers deftly twisting to avoid the branches.

"Anything interesting?" asked the rider in the lead. Of the three, David crouched the lowest on his board, wary and nervous this close to a new city.

"Just the usual," came Croy's voice. "Fifty channels for the bubble-heads; only one for the city council meeting."

"Just like home," the middle rider said. "Cities are all the same."

David only grunted at this. It was Astrix's first contact mission-she would learn.

Cities always seemed alike at first, with their spires held aloft against the law of gravity, their hide-bound leaders, their spoiled and clueless uglies. But often the differences could surprise you, and growing up in the wild had taught David to be careful of surprises.

"Hang on," Croy said. "Something funny up ahead."

David raised his hand and banked to a stop, the others gliding up behind him. They huddled around the handscreen, close enough to whisper.

The tendrils of antennae in Croy's jacket drifted up into the air, snaking through the tree branches, greedy for signal. David tried not to watch them. Smart fibers were useful, but creepy, so he always let Croy do the scanning. Tech was one thing city kids were good at.

Croy gestured at a dozen little thumbnail images across the top of his screen, singers and fashion shows and costume dramas.

"That's the city's main feeds, the usual crap. But check these out." His finger moved to three tiny lights in the center of the screen, pulsing with gentle hieroglyphics. "The signal's from just ahead of us, low-powered pings every few seconds. Some kind of device checking in with the city network."

"Motion sensors," David whispered. "Somebody doesn't want us sneaking in."

"No city's that paranoid." Astrix bent closer to the screen. "It's probably just some kind of tracking system, in case a hiker gets lost."

David almost laughed. "But you can see the buildings from here. Even a city kid couldn't get lost this close to home!"

Astrix and Crow both gave him a look. They'd been city kids not that long ago much. Everyone back in the Smoke had started out life as a city kid, except for David.

"You know what I mean," he added. "We'll go around them, just in case."

"Whatever you say, boss," Astrix said, and angled her hoverboard away.

They were beyond the edge of the city's metal grid, so as the minerals of the dried stream bed fell behind, the hoverboards began to sputter, drifting toward the ground. Soon they had to be carried, the three Smokies pressing ahead on foot through the branches.

It was always tricky, approaching a new city for the first time, looking for rebellious uglies to teach about the Smoke. Some authorities were open to the idea of letting their uglies head off into the wild to live, like it was all some kind of outdoor education project. Some merely turned a blind eye, trusting that their spoiled brats would come crawling back. Most of the time, they were right.

But a few cities were like fortresses, or prisons, depending on whether you wanted in or out. They jealously guarded their citizens from outsiders, from new and unexpected ideas. Over his years of helping runaways find the Smoke, David had encountered wild animals, forest fires, and bio-engineered poisonous plants. But nothing was more dangerous than a city afraid of change.

Astrix and Croy had escaped from their paranoid, controlling city only half a year ago, but even their home hadn't been protected by motion sensors. David looked into the valley again. For whoever was in charge down there, even brain-addling surge wasn't enough control. They needed electronic surveillance as well.

"More sensors ahead," Croy said after ten minutes' struggle through the trees. "Looks like they got the whole city ringed."

"Okay." David turned back toward the stream bed. "If we can't go around, we go through them. Either of you ever cloned a sensor before?"

The other two both stared at him, and he smiled. It was always fun to teach new Smokies the tricks of the trade.

David let Astrix take the lead. She'd been a competitive hoverboarder back in her home city, and a dancer as well. She could move very gracefully when she wanted to.

She and David were crawling toward the nearest sensor, staying low, taking their time. They froze whenever the air grew still, only moving when the leaves around them were dancing in the wind, distracting the sensors.

The descent into the valley was steep here, the stones loose underfoot. David stayed ready to call for their boards if either of them slipped, or if the motion sensors set up an alarm.

City tech was unpredictable. Sometimes it was easy to fool, built so tricky uglies could find ways around it. Other times it was deadly serious, especially here on the borders of a city that was clearly terrified of intruders.

"Those sensors keeping quiet?" David asked during a pause in their descent.

Croy's voice came through David's headset. "Like I wouldn't tell you?"

Astrix laughed softly. "Don't worry, nature boy. I was sneaking out of my dorm room back when you were learning how to start a campfire. I got this."

David rolled his eyes. Whenever he took them on contact missions, city kids always sounded like they're were spouting dialog from an old flatscreen thriller he'd never seen. It was best to just ignore them.

But he couldn't resist saying, "Just remember, Astrix, snakes are cold-blooded, so they're invisible in these thermal goggles."

"Cute," she said.

The wind picked up, the leaf shadows fluttering around him, and David crawled forward again.

Something loose shifted beneath his left elbow, and a rain of pebbles tumbled down, skittering and dancing as they went. David swore. This part of the hill was steep enough to bloom into a waterfall later in spring, but now the dirt was dry and crumbly. He felt the ground slowly shifting under him, and tried to brace himself . . .

But something big was giving way.

David began to slide forward, for a moment riding the crumbling ground beneath him. Then he was tumbling, and curled himself into a ball, dirt spraying against his goggles, rocks jabbing at his spine and sides. The shoulder of his jacket hung on something, and he was yanked to a skidding halt.

"You're welcome," Astrix said.

David opened his eyes. She was grinning down at him, her gloved hand grasping him by the shoulder. Beneath him was a torn packet of SpagBol. His favorite camping rations spilled out across the rocks.

But a worse sight was the motion sensor ten meters ahead, spiky and hovering a few meters in the air, like a pinecone halfway fallen from a tree. There was no way it hadn't spotted his humiliating tumble.

"We have to get out of here!" He reached for his crash bracelet to call the hoverboards.

"Wait!" came Croy's harsh whisper in his headset.

David and Astrix froze, staring at the motion sensor. It didn't seem to be doing anything, but surely it was signaling the city's wardens, or Specials, or whatever they called enforcers here.

"Huh," Croy said an endless moment later. "Not a peep."

"My fingers are . . . unhappy," Astrix said through gritted teeth. Her hand was still wrapped around the shoulder of his jacket.

David moved carefully, digging his boots into the crumbly ground beneath him, reaching for a branch to his right. "Okay. Let go."

She did, and David felt his weight settle.

"Ow." She wriggled her fingers.

"Stay still," he warned.

"Are you kidding? That thing's obviously busted."

David stared at the hovering sensor. Maybe it was defective, or maybe it was being clever, sending some sort of signal that Croy's equipment couldn't detect, like a dog-whistle pitched too high to hear.

"We stick to the plan," he said. "Grab it, clone it, and leave a fake one sending out the same pulses."

"Why bother," Astrix said, "when we can just crawl past?"

"Because when we come back, we might be in too big a hurry to crawl. And this leaves a permanent hole in their perimeter. Stick to the plan."

She let out a sigh. "Whatever you say, boss."

Half an hour later they were back on their boards and riding down into the valley, the cloned sensor in place behind them, dutifully updating the network every few seconds. The real one was in David's backpack, disabled. He could take a proper look at it back at the Smoke, and figure out why it hadn't spotted him.

About a klick below the sensors was a large open field. It was clear of trees, and the ground was level in a way that suggested earth-moving machines. The cities professed to love nature, but they always found some way to improve it.

The field was strewn with plastic cups and other rubbish, and the grass was beaten down. There'd been a party here tonight.

He surveyed the wreckage from his board, sighing. Dealing with the sensors had put the Smokies behind schedule, and it was getting close to dawn. Probably too late for even the trickiest uglies to be out making mischief. And any party this big was probably for pretties only-anyone who'd had the surgery wouldn't dream of leaving their luxurious life to live in the Smoke.

But with the ring of sensors breached, the three Smokes could always sneak back again tomorrow night.

Then David saw a flicker of heat in his goggles, two forms in the trees at the edge of the field. They seemed to be hiding, which was a good sign. Pretties never hid.

David signaled for Astrix and Croy to wait, then angled his board toward the hidden figures, skimming just above the grass. As he drifted to a halt, he pulled off the night-vision goggles, revealing his un-pretty features.

"Hello?" he called into the trees. After three years of making contact with city kids, this was still the best greeting he'd come up with. It worked better than, I'm here to start a rebellion. Want to run away from everything you've ever known?

No answer came at first, but then a short, slight girl stepped from the darkness into starlight.

"Hello, yourself," she said.

David smiled. It was dark, but with her lopsided grin and the wary, intelligent look in her eyes, this girl definitely hadn't had the operation.

"My name's David."

She frowned. David was a Rusty name from way back, the perfect way to set city kids on edge. Nice work, parents.

"Zada." She turned toward the trees. "And this is my scaredy-cat friend, Ardy."

A tall reedy boy stepped from the shadows, looking sheepish.

"Thought you were a warden," the boy said.

"We were videoing the party," Zada explained. "For this Civics project we're doing, about exclusionary practices."

"Sounds interesting." David smiled. Any uglies willing to spy on a pretties-only party were prime candidates for the Smoke.

"Nice hoverboard," Ardy said.

"It's for cross-country," David explained as he stepped off. "Stronger lifters, recharging flaps." Talking about the board was the most natural way to get a conversation about the wild started.

"Where are you from?" Zada asked.

Of course, sometimes the direct route was easiest.

"The Smoke," David said. "You heard of it?"

Zada's mouth fell halfway open. Clearly she'd heard rumors. Most tricky uglies had.

Her eyes were scanning David now-his handmade leather jacket and boots, the survival-hardened tech of his goggles and hoverboard. All those serious textures that the city's holes in the wall never got right.

She took another step out of the trees and reached out to him. "Can I look at your hands?"

"Um, sure?" David said.

Zada took his hands in hers, staring down at his calluses and the dirt ground into the whorls of his palm. City kids were always so clean and soft, as if they'd never touched the raw earth in their lives. Zada's hair was tangled and she might look tired, like someone who'd been spying on a party all night, but David and the others had been camping rough for two weeks straight, bathing sparingly in freezing streams. There was no comparison.

She looked up. "So the Smoke is real."

"Realer than anything you've ever seen." He pulled his hand from hers, and started his standard speech. "You don't have to get the operation. You don't have to look like everyone else and think like everyone else. There's a place you can live in the wild, follow your own rules. It isn't easy, but it's real."

"Whoa," Ardy said. "I thought Leland was just making that stuff up!"

David turned to him. "Leland?"

"Our Civics teacher," Zada broke in. "He's always talking about how any system as ordered as the pretty regime creates revolutionary opposition. The Smoke is a typical example."

David blinked. "Um . . . they actually call it the 'pretty regime' here?"

"Yeah, but only in Civics class," Zada said. "Hey, it would be awesome to do a project on you guys! Can we interview you?"

David stared at the two kids in front of him, so full of energy and enthusiasm, so ready to question authority-as long as they got a good grade out of it.

Some cities, like Diego, controlled rebellion by turning it into fashion, allowing their citizens to get weird surgeries or shocking colors of hair and skin. In other places, uglies were allowed to play all the tricks they wanted, but ultimately the clever ones became enforcers. In this city, apparently, the authorities crushed revolutions before they started, by turning them into homework.

"Sure, we can do an interview," David said. "Let's say we meet back here tonight."

"Fantastic!" Zada said.

"Two conditions. One: if any of your friends want to come, you have to bring them along."

Ardy frowned. "But how are we supposed to get extra credit if everyone gets to meet you!"

"This isn't about getting extra credit," David said. "It's about spreading the word that the Smoke is real. Bring at least five more uglies with you tonight, or the interview's off. Understand?"

"Okay," Zada grumbled.

"The second thing is, you can't tell your Civics teacher about us until tomorrow. In Don't tell anyone who's had the surgery that you're meeting us."

"Duh," Zada said.

"Besides," Ardy added. "It'll be way better as a surprise project!"

David sighed. Every group of city kids had their own motivations for wanting to come to the Smoke, he supposed. Whether it was rebellion, a hunger for adventure, or just plain boredom didn't really matter. The main thing was getting them to imagine a future other than perfect beauty and lifelong compliance.

This was a start at least.

As dawn began to break, the three Smokies headed back up into the mountains. The sky was turning slowly pink, and the scudding clouds were high and thin. No rain tonight.

"Isn't that weird?" Astrix was saying. "Their teacher tells them about the Smoke, but the city's surrounded by motion sensors?"

David only shrugged, dipping his board around a tree. The brain-missing logic of city authorities was always exhausting. As if they knew that the pretty regime couldn't last forever, and were just improvising until it fell apart.

"Maybe they don't stop runaways," Croy said. "But they want to keep an eye on them. Those sensors could shoot out a tracker of some kind as you walk past."

"Maybe it's someone's Civics project!" Astrix added, and the two of them had a good laugh.

David pulled on his night vision goggles again. Even with dawn breaking, it was dark here beneath the canopy of trees, and they were getting close to the sensors again. They had to fly past the sensor they'd cloned, careful not to set off the ones on either-

What the hell was that?

A huge form loomed just ahead, pulsing in David's thermal vision. Something alive, much hotter than the surrounding landscape.

It was waiting at the exact spot where he'd fallen on the way in.

He held up his hand for a halt. "Guys . . . "

The huge form turned to stare at David. Sharp eyes and a long snout, bright with body heat.

A rumbling growl reached David's ears.

"Straight up! Straight up! Straight up!" he cried, tipping the nose of his board back as hard as he could.

As it rose, he turned to see Astrix and Croy looking at him with confused expressions.

"Now!" David yelled, just as something struck him a hard blow to the forehead. The snap of a tree branch reached his ears, along with the flutter of leaves falling around him.

He open his eyes, and the world was a riot of random colors and glittering stars. His goggles were knocked askew.

As he pulled them off, a roar came from beneath, like thunder shuddering in his bones.

The huge sound broke the spell on Astrix and Croy, and the two of them shot up into the air on their boards. A quarter ton of teeth and claws and fur went charging through the spot where they'd been, still roaring.

"Holy crap!" Astrix cried, looking at the ground in astonishment. "What is that thing?"

"Grizzly bear," David managed to say. He sank to his knees, gripping the hoverboard with both hands. He was dizzy, and blood was running into his eyes. If he fell off now, crash bracelets wouldn't save him from being eaten.

The three of them stared down at the bear from five meters up, as high as the hoverboards could manage here at the edge of the city grid. The bear stared back at them, pacing and snarling, testing a couple of the nearby trees for climbing. But their trunks were too young and thin to hold its weight. Eventually, the grizzly ambled back to where David had first seen it-the spot he'd fallen on the way in-and began snarfling in the dirt.

"My SpagBol," he said, and the other two just stared at him.

David shook his head, too light-headed to explain. Here in the final throes of winter, the hungry bear had smelled the spilled food and headed down into the valley.

"Oops," Croy said, apparently having the same thought.

Astrix turned to face him. "What?"

"The motion sensors," Croy said. "They weren't about us. Or runaways either. That's why they didn't notice David's little tumble."

"They were set for bear," David said. "Calibrated to ignore anything smaller than a grizzly. We could've walked right past them."

"You mean, like that bear's doing now?" Astrix asked.

True enough, the grizzly was descending into the valley, ignoring the cloned motion sensor. No doubt he could smell the leftovers from the party the night before.

"Yep," Croy said. "And we let him in."

"Or her," Astrix pointed out.

David pulled the motion detector from his pack. "Put this back in place, Croy. I'll go set off the next one over, so the wardens come and deal with this bear."

"I got it, boss." Astrix pointed at his jacket, and David looked down. Blood glistened dully in the dawn light.

"Right," he said. "Tree branch."

An hour later they were back at their base camp high in the mountains. The sun was fully up, and with the adrenalin of the bear attack worn off, David's head was throbbing. The tree branch had cracked the goggles against his eyebrow, splitting the skin.

"Bear sensors is so boring," Astrix was saying. "Imagine a city teaching their kids about rebellion and freedom, and then using surveillance tech to make sure they never acted on it."

"Sounds like a Rusty idea," Croy said.

"Ouch," David said. His needle had slipped a little.

Astrix looked at him in horror. "Speaking of Rusty ideas, I still can't believe you're sewing your face back together."

"Stitches are pre-Rusty tech, actually," David said. It was an ancient way to close wounds, one that his father had shown him in case he was ever stuck without medspray.

The needle and thread had come from David's repair kit, and Croy's handscreen had a front camera, so it was a decent mirror.

David had used just enough med-spray to kill the pain and prevent infection, but not enough to close the wound. Even with his nerves switched off, it was pretty weird sticking a needle into his own face.

But he wanted a record of this accident-a scar.

The cut had been opened by a tree branch, but that would make a pretty boring story. He could also blame a hasty ascent on a hoverboard, one of the most modern and sophisticated pieces of tech around. But really, it was something much more basic and primal that had caused this scar-the vital hunger of a beast, the desire of a human being to not be eaten.

Stitches weren't as painless as slathering on more med-spray, and were a lot trickier, but his father always said they left a better scar. So old-fashioned was the way to go.

This was a story David might want to tell someday.

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LINES OF COURAGE - Coming May 17, 2022 (Scholastic) Jennifer A. Nielsen, award-winning author of A Night Divided and Rescue, artfully weaves together the stories of five kids living through World War I, each of whom holds the key to the others' futures......

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It's here! The cover reveal for INSTANT KARMA, my upcoming YA contemporary novel! I LOVE the art (it was illustrated by Vera Brosgol! *fangirl squealing!!!*) and am so, so excited to share this book with you. ⠀⠀ The official reveal at Entertainment Weekly includes the first chapter! 🌴 ☀️ 🐬 [...]

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No Slam Dunk

On sale 11/06/2018
A fast-paced, heartfelt story for basketball fans that proves being a good teammate remains the most important quality in basketball—and in life, from New York Times bestselling author Mike Lupica.
Wes' father always told him that there was only one ball in basketball. That you had to know when to take it yourself and when to give it up, that finding the right balance was key. So at every practice and game, Wes tries his best to be a good basketball player and, above all, a good teammate.

As the season kicks off, Wes finds that not everyone on his team has the same idea. All-star player and the Hawks' point guard, Danilo "Dinero" Rey seems determined to hold the spotlight and the ball, even if it means costing his team the game. If Wes is to lead the Hawks to the playoffs, he'll need to find new ways to dish out an assist—even if it means his most important one comes off the court.

In No Slam Dunk, #1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica demonstrates once again that there is no children's sports novelist today who can match his ability to weave a story of vivid sports action and heartfelt emotion. A touching story about teamwork and family, of selfishness and generosity, No Slam Dunk shows that even in the face of adversity, giving your best is the surest way to victory.

Praise for Mike Lupica:

"Lupica is the greatest sports writer for middle school readers."
— VOYA on True Legend

"Lupica will win a Pulitzer for his sportswriting one day (he should have won it already)."
— The New York Times on Heat

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SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS

The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine-as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.

LATER is the third book Stephen King has written for Hard Case Crime. Both of the previous two, THE COLORADO KID and JOYLAND, were New York Times bestsellers.

Stephen King commented, "I love the Hard Case format, and this story-combining a boy who sees beyond our world and strong elements of crime and suspense-seemed a perfect fit."

" LATER is a beautiful story about growing up and facing your demons -- whether they're metaphorical or (as sometimes happens when you're in a Stephen King novel) the real thing," said Charles Ardai, the Edgar Award-winning editor of Hard Case Crime. "It's terrifying, tender, heartbreaking and honest, and we're so excited to bring it to readers."

LATER will be published initially as a paperback original, featuring an original cover painting by Paul Mann. This edition will be followed by a limited-edition hardcover that will feature two new cover paintings by award-winning artist Gregory Manchess, one for LATER itself and one for a fictitious novel within the novel that features prominently in the plot. An ebook edition of LATER will also be available.

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SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn.

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Author of Still Life with Tornado, I Crawl Through It, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future, Reality Boy, Ask the Passengers, Everybody Sees the Ants, Please Ignore Vera Dietz, and more!

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AUTHOR. THINKER. JUGGLER.

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WHat people are saying

⭐️ " An eclectic, poignant, and introspective treasure trove."

- Kirkus Rev iews (starred)

⭐️ "Though the stories differ in so many ways, each author brings a sense of reverence for the theme to their entry, resulting in brutally heartfelt moments with incredible emotional depth that feel like a cohesive whole. . . masterfully collected and worth slowing down to absorb. An anthology for every collection." - School Library Journal (starred)

King proclaims, in an introduction, that "there is currency in weirdness"; by turns dark ly cheeky and piercingly perceptive, this moody and existential grouping of stories lives up to the statement. - Publishers Weekly

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"Anyone who thinks YA books can't also

be great literature needs to read A.S. King"

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"King miraculously blends the sharp, astute precision of a poet with all the humor of Kurt Vonnegut. I cracked up and cried in equal measure. All in all, Switch provides a moving commentary on humanity's struggle for kindness in the race against time."-Buzzfeed on Switch

NEWS & Articles

Bookpage Interview

The Liar's Club Oddcast Interview (Podcast)

Martha Brockenbrough & A.S. King in Conversation at Third Place Books

Cory McCarthy & A.S. King in conversation at Brookline Booksmith

NEWS & Articles

A.S. King's DIG wins the 2020 Michael L. Printz Award

Paperback Release Interview

The Virtual Printz Ceremony

Horn Book: Five Questions for A.S. King about Dig.

DIG Unraveled: The Yarn Podcast with Colby Sharp

DIG wins the 2020 Michael L. Printz Award

I Crawl Through It
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named one of the 50 Best YA Books of All Time

In 2017, Booklist celebrated 50 years of Young Adult literature as S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders turned 50 years old. Click here to see the full list of titles.

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"King's devotion to a passionately experimental style, in a genre often beholden to formula, is inspiring. Kurt Vonnegut might have written a book like this." --New York Times Book Review on I Crawl Through It

STILL LIFE WITH TORNADO

"Moving, unapologetically strange, skillfully constructed. Read this book, whatever your age.You may find it's the exact shape and size of the hole in your heart."
-New York Times Book Review

"Surreal and thought-provoking."-People Magazine

☆ "Lack of original ideas is not something found in work by A.S. King, who blurs reality, truth, violence, emotion, creativity, and art in a show of respect for YA readers."-Horn Book Magazine (starred review)

Five starred trade reviews

NAIBA Best Book 2017 Best Teen Book 2016
Booklist Top of the List winner-Youth Fiction 2016
Shelf Awareness Best Teen Book 2016
Bookpage
Barnes & Noble Best Young Adult Books of 2016
New York Times Notable Children's Book 2016
Bustle's Best YA Books of 2016
a School Library Journal best book of 2016
a Publishers Weekly best book of 2016
Junior Library Guild selection
An Apple iBooks Best book for October
a Bustle best book of October
a Teen Vogue best book of October

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Author of the Legion series, The Lovely Reckless, Broken Beautiful Hearts, and more; co-author of the Beautiful Creatures series

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KAMI GARCIA is the #1 New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling coauthor of the Beautiful Creatures and Dangerous Creatures novels and the author of Unbreakable and Unmarked (The Legion Series), The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos, The Lovely Reckless, and Broken Beautiful Hearts.

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Lucky is the biggest K-pop star on the scene, and she's just performed her hit song "Heartbeat" in Hong Kong to thousands of adoring fans. She's about to debut on The Later Tonight Show in America, hopefully a breakout performance for her career. But right now?

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Hello. You have reached the official site for Michael Grant, the dark genius of YA fiction. Right now, somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area, Michael is listening to the murderous call of seagulls and staring dreamily at his charming view of Alcatraz, imagining fresh ways of terrifying his readers.

Michael's new series, Front Lines, reimagines WWII and places women beside men in the battle and carnage. The second instalment, Silver Stars, reunites GIs Rio, Frangie, and Rainy. The enemy has been bloodied, but Nazi Germany is far from beaten. On the front lines, the soldier girls will again come face to face with the brutality of war until they win or die.

Also look out for the World Book Day exclusive Front Lines story, Dead of Night, which finds Rio as part of a squad on a training exercise in Wales. They're cold, they're wet, and Rio's pretty sure they're also lost. Spending the night in a creepy old inn wasn't part of the plan at all...

Enter to discover more about Michael and his other books, including GONE, BZRK, and Messenger of Fear, and immerse yourself in his alternate realities through trailers, games, quizzes and more.

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David Levithan. 34K likes. This is my official, entirely-me Author Page. Follow it for updates about new books, new events, and such.

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Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good, daydreaming about the comics they'll create together in beautiful Hawaii, where the air smells like pineapples, the clear blue water sparkles in the sun, and dozens of US battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers stand silent sentinel in the harbor. World War II is raging elsewhere, but not here-not until the morning of December 7, 1941, when Japanese planes suddenly attack without warning. If Frank and Stanley make it through this infamous day, can their friendship-and their dreams-survive? Or has everything they know and love been destroyed?

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It's time to go BACK TO ELLINGHAM ACADEMY. Are you ready for more puzzles? More trouble? MORE MURDER? THE VANISHING STAIR, the sequel to TRULY DEVIOUS, is waiting for YOU!

"Take it from the world's most impatient reader: If the Truly Devious series is basically one long mystery book, The Vanishing Stair is a middle part so enjoyable you won't even want to skip to the end." - Entertainment Weekly

"Waiting for the next installment of Maureen Johnson's Agatha Christie-Sherlock Holmes-classic mystery homage series was torture, but The Vanishing Stair is oh so worth it." - Bustle

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Ibi Zoboi is the New York Times Bestselling author of American Street, a National Book Award finalist, Pride, a contemporary remix of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and a middle-grade debut, My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich. She is the editor of Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America. She co-authored the Walter Award and L.A. Times Book Prize-winning novel-in-verse, Punching the Air, with Exonerated Five member, Yusef Salaam. Her debut picture book, The People Remember, received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award. Her most recent books include Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler, and Okoye to the People: A Black Panther Novel for Marvel. Ibi lives in New Jersey with her husband, a high school art teacher, and their three teenage children.

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Author of Mexican Whiteboy, Ball Don't Lie, We Were Here, Superman: Dawnbreaker, and more!

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Years in the making, Sarah J. Maas's #1 New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series draws to an epic, unforgettable conclusion. Aelin Galathynius's journey from slave to king's assassin to the queen of a once-great kingdom reaches its heart-rending finale as war erupts across her world. . .
Aelin has risked everything to save her people-but at a tremendous cost. Locked within an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures months of torture. Aware that yielding to Maeve will doom those she loves keeps her from breaking, though her resolve begins to unravel with each passing day...

With Aelin captured, Aedion and Lysandra remain the last line of defense to protect Terrasen from utter destruction. Yet they soon realize that the many allies they've gathered to battle Erawan's hordes might not be enough to save them. Scattered across the continent and racing against time, Chaol, Manon, and Dorian are forced to forge their own paths to meet their fates. Hanging in the balance is any hope of salvation-and a better world.

And across the sea, his companions unwavering beside him, Rowan hunts to find his captured wife and queen-before she is lost to him forever.

As the threads of fate weave together at last, all must fight, if they are to have a chance at a future. Some bonds will grow even deeper, while others will be severed forever in the explosive final chapter of the Throne of Glass series.

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Nic Stone was born and raised in a suburb of Atlanta, GA, and the only thing she loves more than an adventure is a good story about one. After graduating from Spelman College, she worked extensively in teen mentoring and lived in Israel for a few years before returning to the US to write full-time.

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Melissa de la Cruz is the #1 New York Times, #1 Publisher's Weekly and #1 IndieBound bestselling author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for readers of all ages. Her more than thirty books have also topped the USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times bestseller lists and have been published in over twenty countries.

The Isle of the Lost, the prequel to the Disney Channel Original Movie The Descendants, has spent more than fifty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, fifteen at #1, and has over a million copies in print. The Descendants starring Kristen Chenoweth and Dove Cameron is the #1 cable TV movie of 2015, and #5 of all time, and its soundtrack is the #1 bestselling album on iTunes. The Isle of the Lost's sequel, Return to the Isle of the Lost, is also a #1 New York Times bestseller and spent sixteen weeks on the New York Times List. The third Isle of the Lost book will be published ...

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Author of Everything, Everything and The Sun is Also a Star

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Writer living in Los Angeles. Upcoming book: Everything, Everything

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Celebrate the power of kindness with WONDER by R.J. Palacio—the worldwide bestseller that launched the Choose Kind movement.

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Author of Dry, Scythe, Thunderhead, Challenger Deep, the Skinjacker series, the Unwind series, and more!

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About Neal

Neal Shusterman is the New York Times best-selling author of over thirty novels for children, teens, and adults. He won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for Challenger Deep-and his novel, Scythe, was a 2017 Michael L. Printz Honor book-and is in development with Universal Studios as a feature film. Read more

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Author of To All the Boys I've Loved Before series and Ashes to Ashes series

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Author of The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for Alaska, Turtles All the Way Down, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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The Anthropocene Reviewed

The Anthropocene Reviewed book is out now! The book is a a deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from #1 bestselling author John Green, adapted from his critically acclaimed podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed. Available now.

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John Green is the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska , An Abundance of Katherines , Paper Towns , The Fault in Our Stars , Turtles All the Way Down , and the essay collection The Anthropocene Reviewed .

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Author of the Harry Potter series

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J.K. Rowling is the author of the much-loved series of seven Harry Potter novels, originally published between 1997 and 2007. Along with the three companion books written for charity, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films.

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Author of All American Boys, The Boy in the Black Suit, the Track series, When I Was the Greatest, Miles Morales: Spider-Man, Long Way Down, and more!

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Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of many award-winning books, including Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks and more.

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Author of Fangirl, Carry On, and Eleanor and Park

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Books, books, books. WAYWARD SON and PUMPKINHEADS coming in 2019. Currently writing Marvel's Runaways.

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Author of The Suffering, The Girl in the Well, and the Bone Witch trilogy

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Out March 5, 2019! Pre-order here:

these are my books. there are many like them, but these ones are mine.

A dead girl walks the quiet streets of Applegate, killing child murderers. But when a boy with strange tattoos moves into the neighborhood, so, she realizes, does something else.

When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she's a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community.

Tala Warnock has little use for magic - a descendant of Maria Makiling, she negates spells, often by accident. But her family's ties to Avalon soon finds them guarding its last prince from those who would use his kingdom's magic for insidious ends. And with the rise of dangerous spelltech in the Royal States of America, the re-emergence of the Snow Queen - and the appearance of the firebird, Avalon's most powerful weapon, at her doorstep - Tala's life is about to get even more complicated....

A food anthology by 13 Young Adult authors!

Ami is a mangkukulam. Her Lola Simeona is a spice witch who runs the local carinderia with a little magic - her homecooked Filipino meals grants worthy customers 'happiness'. But with great power comes great responsibility, and Ami soon learns that it's one thing to judge whether their patrons deserve their help, and another to earn the right to her own happiness.

We can endure any amount of sadness for the people we love. The Bone Witch

Pictures tell a thousand words, so I will rely for the most part on them to explain this post. The Twitter thread this was screengrabbed from has been deleted - my main goal was to let as many authors as possible know about the theft (and man, they were a lot) and...

#SEACritterspub Agent Interview: Quressa Robinson of the Nelson Literary Agency 3 SEPTEMBER, 2018 Welcome to the #SEACritterspub interviews, where we spotlight agents and editors looking for Asian literature and / or Asian authors! This week it's Quressa Robinson from...

#SEACritterspub Agent Interview: Valerie Noble of the Donaghy Literary Agency 24 JULY, 2018 Welcome to the #SEACritterspub interviews, where we spotlight agents and editors looking for Asian literature and / or Asian authors! This week it's Valerie Noble from the...

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Rebecca Podos, Helen Rees Agency

Pictures tell a thousand words, so I will rely for the most part on them to explain this post. The Twitter thread this was screengrabbed from has been deleted - my main goal was to let as many authors as possible know about the theft (and man, they were a lot) and...

#SEACritterspub Agent Interview: Quressa Robinson of the Nelson Literary Agency 3 SEPTEMBER, 2018 Welcome to the #SEACritterspub interviews, where we spotlight agents and editors looking for Asian literature and / or Asian authors! This week it's Quressa Robinson from...

#SEACritterspub Agent Interview: Valerie Noble of the Donaghy Literary Agency 24 JULY, 2018 Welcome to the #SEACritterspub interviews, where we spotlight agents and editors looking for Asian literature and / or Asian authors! This week it's Valerie Noble from the...

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Out March 5, 2019! Pre-order here: these are my books. there are many like them, but these ones are mine. A dead girl walks the quiet streets of Applegate, killing child murderers. But when a boy with strange tattoos moves into the neighborhood, so, she realizes, does something else.

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Author of The Hate U Give and On the Come Up