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april is

Stickers for each of my books designed by the incredibly talented Megan Roy. Read on for info on how to score a set of your very own.

Garden planting season. National Poetry Month, which always makes me so happy. The FIREWORKS paperback launch. Tour planning (more soon!). Reading a bunch of middle grade books for no reason except there are a bunch of good middle grade books I haven’t read. Brothers and sisters coming to visit. Eating less cheese, sadly. Finally settling into a work-from-home routine, and fully recognizing what a privilege it is to spend all these months thinking about how I work best and adjusting accordingly. The new Kacey Musgraves on my phone. Taking Avon to Castle Island so she can jam her nose into the sand and sneeze and look startled. Throwing a dinner party, I think. Gearing up to release 9 DAYS & 9 NIGHTS out into the world (have you preordered yet? JUST ASKING). Figuring out what this blog looks like now, and making myself at home here one more time. I am so very glad to be back.

As a thank you for sticking with me, I’ve got a whole bunch of these rockin’ stickers to give away! (…GET IT?) Just email me with your name + mailing address and I’ll send you a full set.

More soon. Spring’s here. xox

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five good things

1. Eight incredibly wonderful days in Europe, an Irish wedding and beers with a second cousin at a pub hidden behind a hardware store, walking down the street in Rome and stopping at every storefront advertising pizza, holding hands in front of the Eiffel Tower like a couple of turds, singing Bon Jovi at a bar with old friends, a truffle tasting, green hills and tall buildings, legs that ached from walking at the end of every day.

2. Curling up in the dark under my blanket scarf and watching five different movies on the flight home yesterday, even though none of them were actually very good. I never watch that many movies! It felt kind of decadent, or as decadent as one can possibly be while sitting in Seat 24F of a US Airways flight and hoping one doesn’t die of a blood clot.

3. Landing at Logan and ordering Chinese delivery from the cab, because of freedom.

4. It’s September! I love September, it’s my favorite, it feels like the real beginning of the year to me, and I’m looking forward to a more regular schedule and being present in this space a bit more.

5. To celebrate: have a giveaway! I’ve got a signed copy of 99 DAYS + a copy of NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR JULIE MURPHY(!!!!)’S DUMPLIN’ to one lucky US/Canada resident. To enter, leave a comment below with your email address! I’ll notify a winner on Monday.

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HOW TO LOVE in paperback, and a giveaway

tumblr_inline_n7de9kDPzf1qdr5v3I don’t think I ever did a proper cover reveal on here for the HOW TO LOVE paperback, which comes out TODAY. But: holy hell, this baby is beautiful. That blue! That wallpaper! The way these two are so clearly in love.

HOW TO LOVE will always be so absurdly special to me. It’s my baby, my first book, the one I started in my high school bedroom and drafted in my college dorm–the one that got me here, to this lucky, lucky place I am now. HOW TO LOVE is about growing up, because that’s what I did while I was writing it. And I’m so proud when I see it out in the world.

I’ve got three signed copies of the HOW TO LOVE paperback to give away today. To enter, tweet your favorite fictional romance(s) with the hashtag #howtolovegiveaway. Enter as many times as you want–anybody living in the continental US is eligible to win.See you back here on Friday for the winners, along with Five Good Things.

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oh hey, it’s giveaway time

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Today I am super psyched to bring you another giveaway, this one even radder than the last because while the winner WILL INDEED get a signed ARC of 99 DAYS, he or she will also get a bonus copy of HOW TO LOVE and a super-secret gift that’s related to my third book in a way I can’t tell you about yet. Basically though: YOU WANT TO ENTER THIS CONTEST, IT’LL BE GREAT.

But wait! There’s more! 3 OTHER WINNERS will get signed 99 DAYS postcards along with a little 99 DAYS-themed treat. Whaaaaaaaat.

Rules are the same as last time, meaning this giveaway is sadly only open to residents of the continental US. To enter: follow me on this blog/twitter/tumblr/instagram and leave a comment telling me you’ve done so (each follow counts as a separate entry). BUT! If you’ve already followed me in all those various internet places, go ahead and tweet one thing making you happy today with the hashtag #99DAYSGIVEAWAY. You can tweet as many times as you want for more entries, because thaaaat is how I roll. Enter until midnight on Thursday 1/22, and I’ll announce a winner in Friday’s 5 Good Things post.

Get it? Got it. Good.