What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? FLIPPIN’ SKATERS (2023). This is Teresa’s latest release, and is a YA contemporary novel about self-love in the face of online bullying. After a photo of Aspen goes viral and destroys her reputation, she copes by reinventing herself as a fierce, gravity-defying […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? On my table, you’ll see three sci-fi books for young adults: UNREGISTERED, UNAFRAID, and UNDONE. Together, they’re a series called Children of the Uprising, a dystopian story of a little band of outsiders who take on an oppressive and controlling government. You’ll also see […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I write contemporary fiction for teens and tweens— books that deal with the messiness of growing up, but with a joyful and nuanced lense. My latest book is a Young Adult novel-in-verse called FOREVER IS NOW. It follows Sadie— a queer, poet-activist living […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Chaperone tells the story of 17-year-old named Stella Graham who decides she wants to escape from New America, a near-future society where adolescent girls are not allowed to go out in public without a government-assigned chaperone. Whom do you […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Vermilion Sunrise is a Young Adult science fiction book set on a distant planet. Stranded on an island surrounded by unknown seas, a group of teenagers fight to establish the first human colony beyond our solar system. As a former middle […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Not Here to Stay Friends is a young adult romance about two best friends who unexpectedly end up spending their summer around a reality dating show! While one is a contestant being courted by the lead actor of her favorite TV show, […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Readers will find my most recent title Wicked Little Things, which is a spooky and queer Young Adult novel about a recently out teenager who discovers he is a witch and joins a coven to hunt down a serial killer. […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My debut title, The Memory Index, and its sequel, The Recall Paradox! My duology takes place in a reimagined 1980s, where hyper memory loss afflicts mankind, and the quartet of heroes—led by the brave, empathetic Freya Izquierdo—must unlock the mystery of Memory […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? ST. AMBROSE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS- this is a book of my heart, the story of a teenage girl with a different kind of mind at a prep school where the conventional is the only thing allowed to thrive (written under Jessica […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Promise of Lost Things – Winner of the YA Silver IPPY medal. A medium desperate to save his town, a grieving brother wanting revenge, and a girl who’s decided to end ghosts once and for all, converge in the town of […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Smiling faces! Writers spend a lot of time alone, working on their books. KBF is so much fun because it’s a chance to meet readers one-on-one! It’s humbling to meet kids and grown-ups who have read and enjoyed your previous books […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My most recent release is called Children of Ragnarok, book 1 of Runestone Saga, a duology rooted in Norse mythology. A notorious coaster joins forces with a traveling musician and runecaster to navigate the dangerous world after the Last Battle. You’ll […]
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