My five Lost In… books have been hugely popular. So popular that they’re now under shopping agreements with production companies! Lost in London was the first. It’s a great premise: Local girl takes a school [...]

Where were you when Elvis died? At the Wayne Hills Mall. Where were you when John Lennon was shot? I don’t know. Where were you when you got news that would change the trajectory of [...]

  I love my book My Big Heart-Shaped Fail. It epitomizes the way I want to write. Inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it’s a highly snackable, fun, funny, fast-paced tween comedy-of-errors that chronicles one [...]

What’s a snackable book? “Snackability” is to middle-grade books what “binge-ablity” is to streaming shows. Kids are busy. We’re all busy. Thanks to social media we’re accustomed to messages in photo or video format, or [...]

I’m going to tell you something you probably never hear from a writer. Here it comes… are you ready for it? I didn’t like to read as a kid. I was jealous of the kid [...]

I’m a neat-nick. There, I said it. So, the day circa 2003 when I saw my daughter and her two friends baking in my kitchen, I twitched a little. Eggshell here… flour there… but, I [...]