October Is

Katie

October 13, 2021

Getting the ol’ act together. Rain knocking the leaves down onto the sidewalk. Halloween pajamas. Brainstorming the sequel to Liar’s Beach. Trips to the library every week. Meg Conley’s homeculture newsletter. The baby trying hard to roll over. A very creepy version of Darlin’ Clementine on repeat. The two-year-old marching off to school in pigtails and sneakers. Iced coffee with almond milk. A trip to see some old friends. White chicken chili in the crockpot. Only Murders in the Building. First pass pages for Birds of California. 30,000 words of something new.

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Katie Cotugno is the New York Times bestselling author of eight messy, complicated feminist YA love stories, as well as the adult novels Birds of California and Meet the Benedettos. She is also the co-author, with Candace Bushnell, of Rules for Being a Girl. Her books have been honored by the Junior Library Guild, the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee, and the Kentucky Association of School Librarians, among others, and translated into more than fifteen languages. Katie is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Mississippi Review, and Argestes, as well as many other literary magazines. She studied Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College and received her MFA in Fiction at Lesley University. She lives in Boston with her family.