Posted Feb 23 2012 in book club, Book Hungry, fiction, teens, What I'm Reading, YA
This month, Bookhungry chose Veronica Roth’s DIVERGENT four – er, I mean for our discussion. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, the first in a series I’m enormously excited to finish. Before my review, let me first summarize the plot. Beatrice Prior is sixteen years old. She and her brother, Caleb, are just eleven months apart, […]
Read More...Posted Feb 21 2012 in author, Patty Blount, social media, social networking
On Saturday, February 18th, I was at the South Huntington Public Library with my cohorts from the Long Island Romance Writers, where Jeannie Moon and I presented a session on how to get started with social networking. For anyone interested in more information about our session, visit Jeannie’s website, where she’s posted some additional links. […]
Read More...Posted Feb 16 2012 in author, eating disorders, Patty Blount, social networking, teens, YA
For my day job as a software technical writer, I’ve had to learn all about social networking – weigh the risks, know the benefits, tell the trends from the fads. It was this research that spurred my novel, SEND (August, 2012, Sourcebooks, Inc.), a story about a teen who exploits technology in the worst […]
Read More...Posted Feb 9 2012 in author, bullying, parenting, Patty Blount, suicide, teens, violence, YA
We’re six months away from the release of my novel, SEND, a story about a former bully learning to cope with the suicide he caused when he was thirteen. When I began writing SEND, the plot was made up — born partly from my own fears as a mother of teens and partly from an […]
Read More...Posted Feb 8 2012 in author, fiction, Miscellany, Patty Blount
I’m anxiously waiting for Sourcebooks’ creative folks to send me cover art so I can share it with you. Should be any time now. I saw a great cover reveal today. Carrie Harris revealed Bad Hair Day by asking for pictures of – you guessed it – bad hair. I thought it might be fun to […]
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