Author of WHAT I WANT YOU TO SEE (freeform 2020) and A GIRL CALLED FEARLESS. VCFA MFA, explorer, birder, dog mom
Pacific Northwest
Joined March 2009
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So excited about my interview with @vcfawcya classmates @GhostwriterMo & @vashleywalker on Cynsations today. They talk about their process of interviewing women in the music industry as well as the collaboration process. cynthialeitichsmith.com/2022…
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Tween and even some teen readers grab on to manga, graphic novels, and novels in verse in part because these literary forms feel accessible. Emerging readers don't have the same confidence adult readers do.
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Upon reading the YA novel, WHAT I WANT YOU TO SEE, August Rodin called it "thought provoking."
Paperback release 4/26/22 from @LittleBrownYR
Catherine Linka retweeted
The Queen’s Gambit meets The Hunger Games in #Trigger, a YA thriller from @N_Griffin that's out 3/29. spr.ly/6014Klqha
Channing Tatum and a German Shepard are just about the only reasons I can see for going to the movies right now.
Six stages of novel writing: genesis, questioning, dedication, despair, revelation, relief.
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Thrilled for my friend Rieko Mendez who was accepted into the #VCFA MCYA class of 2024! So impressed by how hard she worked to get there! Go Rieko!
1st novel writing class I took @kerrymadden recommended the Synonym Finder. Writers often tell me they are dazzled by the verbs I employ. I don't have a secret stash, but I do have this book.
When I was a bookseller, I hosted #BrianSelznick. Hundreds of students from 4 schools came. It was a lot of work, but Brian was kind and generous. He even sent me a handwritten thank you. More guest authors should show their appreciation the way he did.
Whenever anyone asks which 12 people (living or dead) I'd invite to a dinner party, # 1 is always @mary-roach (FUZZ, STIFF) b/c who else can regale you with stories about cadavers, cougar scat and blowing up dangerous trees.
Writers looking for stories that employ backstory the right way--check out THE GIRLS I'VE BEEN by @sharpegirl
our town
So much smoke blanketing the foothill communities right now. Here's the view(?) of La Crescenta, La Cañada Flintridge and some of Pasadena from the Verdugo Mountains. #BobcatFire
Check out the time lapse overnight here: alertwildfire.org/orangecoca…
Latest map of Bobcat Fire.
Watching sunrise over the #bobcatfire from @MtWilsonObs: hpwren.ucsd.edu/cameras/I/wi… Here's another view, combining MODIS detection with @googleearth. Note that the new fire detections are the red ones.
