Holly's Latest Blogs
Apr.18.2012 - 3:25 pm
Virginia Woolf once famously insisted that in order to write fiction, a woman needed money and a room of her own.
Eleven years ago this May, that’s exactly what I got: a room of...
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Mar.07.2012 - 3:59 pm
We all use that word often, as writers—luck. We use it because so much is out of our hands. Because it always feels—especially during the submission process—that it takes a...
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Jan.22.2012 - 5:53 pm
While many of the firsts in my own life carried with them a swirl of different emotions—excitement and joy and uncertainty and confusion and elation—one first has the power, even...
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Nov.22.2011 - 1:45 pm
This year, I'm just really into the Thanksgiving vibe. For those of you who follow my MG and YA author blogs, you know that both are featuring "gratitude" as the theme of the...
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The last thing that ex-star basketball player Chelsea Keyes has on her mind when she arrives at Camp Lake in the Woods is a summer of training. She is miserable, reliving the...
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After obtaining my master's degree in '01, I decided to nix the idea of a full-time job in order to pursue a writing career (my lifelong dream). A mere (ahem) nine years (and half a dozen worn-out computer keyboards later), I released my debut YA novel...
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