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Why adults should read young adult novels

Why adults should read young adult novels

When I was sixteen, I penned a promise to myself in my journal. I'll never forget what it feels like to be a teenager. This promise was the product of feeling misunderstood and dismissed by the adults in my life. I don't blame the adults. You see, there's this thing...

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How Comparison and Envy Forced Me To Be Better

How Comparison and Envy Forced Me To Be Better

It was March of 2014, and I was in the middle of the first round of revisions on the novel I'd written five years earlier. After a long day buried in my own words, I found retreat on the couch, my nose tucked in a book. I read furiously, lost in the world created by a...

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