GIRLS WHO BURN Cover Reveal!

The COVER to my debut YA Thriller, Girls Who Burn, coming August 6, 2024 from Penguin Teen, is finally HERE! Counting down from 3… 2… 1… AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Isn’t she BEAUTIFUL?!?!? A bit more about my book: The summer before her senior year, Addie hurled the worst words she could think of at her sister—and hours […]

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MK’s Book Reviews: This Adventure Ends

I resolved to write more book reviews this year, and so here we go…

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One Weird Trick to Get Me In My Character’s Mindset

Just a quick writing tip for your Wednesday…

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What Makes A Book Young Adult?

This may be an obvious question for some of you, but…

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Take a Break

After NaNo, I was exhausted, and also a little lost in the forest that was my WIP…

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MK’s Book Reviews: The Walls Around Us

One reader I follow on Goodreads called this “a beautiful little mindf*ck of a novel”, and…

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MK’s Book Reviews: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

I read a really great book last week…

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The Best YA (For People Who “Don’t Like YA”)

I’ve decided Fridays are good days for book posts. So that is where they shall be from now unto eternity (or at least, until I change my mind again.)

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3 Ways To Find Critique Partners

Critique partners: do you need them?

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MK’s Book Reviews: Lady Midnight

I finished the 600+ page new installment in Cassandra Clare’s (neverending) Shadowhunter series earlier this week, and…

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