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Uhmm, can you expect anything else from me?! Seattle Public Library Poughkeepsie Journal

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School Library Journal – the review

School Library Journal is this magazine that goes out to, you guessed it, school librarians! It’s basically a magazine of book reviews, recommending what they should buy. So if you get a good review, it’s definitely a good thing. They just reviewed HOW TO RAISE YOUR PARENTS in their July issue and here’s what they [...]

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New blog reviews of How to Raise Your Parents

Some of my favorite blogs have reviewed How to Raise Your Parents (thanks to all you bloggers who read the book!). Here are the latest new reviews: The Reading Zone - How to Raise Your Parents: A Teen Girl’s Survival Guide by Sarah O’Leary Burningham was a nice break from the fiction I have been reading [...]

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Some of my Favorite Radio Interviews

I've done over 50 radio interviews for my book launch and a few have been really super fun. I thought I'd post them here in case you have some time on your hands and want to listen to me rambling about my book, why I like teenagers, and why parents and teens aren't as different [...]

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Behind the Scenes on Book Tour

I have settled back home after being out on the road for 2 weeks. It’s great to be back home sleeping in my bed and waking up at a decent hour, but I kind of miss being out doing events and meeting people. So, I thought I would share some highlights from a few cities [...]

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My interview with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

While I was on book tour, I got to speak to a bunch of high school and junior high students in all different cities about how to deal with their parents. Let me just say, these were by far the best events I did. The teenagers had the best questions and we had really good [...]

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What I’m Reading While on Book Tour

I’ve been spending a lot of time on planes over the last two weeks – which means I’ve been taking a lot of catnaps and reading. What, you might ask, does an author read while on book tour? The answer is this: just about everything. But here’s what I’ve been devouring… Chalked Up by Jennifer [...]

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On the Road Again

It’s sunny in Seattle and I feel so lucky. I lived in Bellevue growing up (the city right across the bridge from Seattle) and it’s not sunny very often. I think the book tour gods are being nice to me. Yesterday was a blast with 2 events in the Seattle area. The first was at [...]

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Book Tour Buzz

I’m out on the road, in Salt Lake City right now, and I leave for Seattle early tomorrow morning. It’s been a total whirlwind so far and I’m loving every second of it. My first tour event was in Dayton, Ohio, at Books & Co. – a famously rocking bookstore for hosting great events and [...]

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My Book Tour Starts Today!

This morning I got up at the crack of dawn (literally the crack) to fly out to Cincinnati/Dayton for the first stop on my book tour. Check out the schedule below to see if I’m coming to your city. And if I am – you should stop by because I would LOVE to see you! [...]

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