July is

Katie

July 3, 2018

hot and damp and verdant. 50,000 new words, I hope. Re-attending to some things I’ve let go. S’mores in the backyard in the suburbs. My sister’s bachelorette. First tomatoes in the garden. Afternoon naps on the deck. Breaking in my Get to Work Book. Early morning walks with Avon. Sleeping in the AC. Yacht Rock Pandora. Hipster ice cream in fancy cones. Taking a break from twitter. Calling my reps on the phone. Evenings full of fireflies. Wooden roller coasters. Enjoying it while it lasts.

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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.