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I Have Lost My Way
I Have Lost My Way
Pour Your Heart Out
Pour Your Heart Out
Just One
Just One
Leave Me
Leave Me
I Was Here
I Was Here
Just One Night
Just One Night
Just One Year
Just One Year
Just One Day
Just One Day
Where She Went
Where She Went
If I Stay
If I Stay
Sisters in Sanity
Sisters in Sanity
You Can't Get There From Here
You Can't Get There From Here
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It just hit me that it’s been almost TEN YEARS since IF I STAY was published. (And eight years since WHERE SHE WENT). I often think of Adam and Mia, what they’re doing, how they’re doing. What about you? Are there characters you like to keep up with, if only in your imagination? So grateful for the readers who opened their hearts to these characters. And to @caratplusbook for the lovely photo. #IfIStay #WhereSheWent #TenYears #AdamMia #LiveForLove
Spring is coming which means: Fewer days inside 🏠 Fewer reasons to scream at the weather app on your phone 😱 More book festivals 📚 More reasons to leave the house 🌞 And lucky for you I have a few events coming up. 📅 Join me on March 23 with @arvinahmadi in conversation with Jim Nicosia at the #MontclairLiteraryFestival AND you can see me twice at #NYCTAF: 📅 on March 27 with @kodykeplinger @davidlevithan @elockhartbooks @markdoesstuff @scott_westerfeld & @ashwrites (moderated by @justinelarbalestier) 📅 on March 29 with @emmylaybourne @sarahdarerlitt @laurenspieller & @willdwalton (moderated by @davidlevithan) Hope to see you. 🧐 Stay strong as we push through the end of winter. ❄️ . . . #bookgram #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #ireadYA
Jen Smith has a new novel about strangers who meet on a cross-country train trip. You had me at train. No, actually, you had me at Jen Smith. She always delivers. This is me trying my hardest at #bookstagram. How’d I do? 📚📷🤷 . . . #fieldnotesonlove #ireadYA #bookgram #booksofinstagram #jenniferesmith
Can't wait for this event @booksaremagicbk with @nina_lacour on Saturday. Hope to see you there.
Everyone thinks it’s because of the snow. The first line to #IfIStay. I think first lines are EVERYTHING. They are Rorschach tests that let you glimpse into the soul of a novel. What are your all-time favorite first lines of novels (YA and otherwise)? Tell me in the comments for a chance to win a signed copy of a first edition of If I Stay. As for my favorite first line? It’s probably the opener to The Knife Of Never Letting Go by @patricknessbooks "The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say…" Talk about a first line that grabs you and makes you want to know what the HELL is going on.
For me, a novel begins with a collision of a premise (a what if question) and a character. For #IfIStay, it was the collision of the question—what if you had to choose whether to live or die?—and the character: Mia. What are your what-ifs? The questions that keep you up at night. That make you smile when you’re bored. That you toss over in your brain? Comment with yours and I’ll pick my favorites to share with an upcoming online class I’m teaching. I'll give away a signed first edition copy of If I Stay to my favorites.
🌸🎶📘 Some of my favorite things. You? . . . #repost from @zivot_plny_pribehu . . . #bookgram #bookstagram #instabooks #booksofinstagram #ifistay
My weekend plan: 📚☕ (and maybe 💤). What about you? Thanks to @alyshiahull for the photo. . . . . #booksandcoffee #bookgram #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #instabooks #repost
 

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