Category Archives: LHA

Tweet     I try to use this website as the place where you can find all the answers to your questions about my books and my life. (If you have a question that you can’t find answered here, let me know what you need to know in the comment section.) The Poetry Question just [...]

Tweet   For the last week I have been a lucky writer holed up at the Kindling Words West writing retreat in Taos, New Mexico. There are 25 of us here. Every morning we get to listen to the wise and wonderful Nikki Grimes teach us about the power of poetry. The rest of the [...]

Tweet     Guess which piece of office equipment I want to throw in the road and drive over ten million times with Husband’s monster pick-up truck?       Read the entire comic at The Oatmeal. I will happily drive over your printer, too, if you’d like.

Tweet   There have long been, erm, ‘conversations’ about the original TWISTED cover. This is a book about a sweet, confused teenage boy whose father is an asshole and whose life is quickly going down the toilet. It’s a story about false accusations, lies, love and suicide. Is that the spirit that this cover evokes? [...]

Tweet   YA authors are incredibly lucky because we have amazing, generous, creative fans. Don’t believe me? Feast your eyes on my newest shoes; hand-painted with illustrations from the covers of Speak and Catalyst!     Even the box they came in was decorated!   These gifts were made by Isabel and Julia (don’t want [...]

Tweet    The Air Force officer in charge of the Air Force’s sexual assault prevention program was arrested Sunday for sexual assault. Over at Wired, reporter Spencer Ackerman wrote an article with many links that puts this arrest in context with other recent sexual assaults in the military. The Wired article is an excellent piece [...]

Tweet   Today is your last chance to donate to Speak4RAINN!! Thank you all so much for the donations and support, and for your part in continuing the conversation about how we need to teach our children about consent so that they might be made safer from being hurt by or committing sexual assault. Thank [...]

Tweet A couple of weeks ago I tweeted something to the effect that I’d love to see a PSA of a couple making out, then one pushes the sexual boundaries not respecting the partner’s wishes, and that partner whips out a chainsaw to prevent being sexual assaulted. Graphic? Perhaps. But sexual violence is graphic and [...]

Tweet     When I was a newspaper reporter my editors yelled at me constantly for burying the lead. So here it is: Our RAINN fundraiser has already exceeded its goal!!!!   As I write this, the total stands at $22,315! Most of those donations have been $10 often given by students or newly graduated [...]

Tweet   As I write this we have nine days left in the Speak4RAINN fundraiser and roughly $7500 to raise in order to meet the goal… and help a lot of sexual assault victims. I would love to see us blast through the goal of $20,000 and help even more people. The overwhelming response to [...]