A Short Post to Manage Expectations

A Short Post to Manage Expectations
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WELCOME!

Hi! If you’re here on my website, clicking through my blog, you might be interested in books for kids and teens. Or you might have googled something and wound up here by accident. Or you might just be bored.

Whatever the reason, WELCOME!

I will warn you, however, that I am woefully bad at updating this blog right now. (And by right now I mean since 2018 or so). It is my heartfelt intention to start writing regularly again…about books I’m reading that I love, about the writing process, about cats or politics or whatever else is on my mind. But that intention has not quite motivated me thus far, so who knows when or if I’ll start writing regularly. It does seem that I’m better off meeting my book deadlines (a new one coming out in February 2023, another that I’m drafting now for summer 2024…more on that soon!) than rambling on the blog.

Anyway, these are all* my current books, along with one of my current cats. If you have questions please feel free to write me with the contact form below, and I’ll do my best to get back to you!

Happy reading!

xoxo Dana

*the top book, Breaking the Mold, comes out in February. It will be up on my Books page any minute now, I promise!

A Poem About Hope
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It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a holiday that far too often is seen as just a day off, a day when you don’t have to set the alarm, don’t have to rush off to work or school. Far too often it’s a day when folks post one of Dr. King’s most famous quotes, usually […]

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Gratitude and Awareness: Doing Thanksgiving Right
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Happy Thanksgiving to my American pals! Here’s hoping there is a day full of the kind of celebrating that you love best. For me that’s family, a mildly obsessive level of fussing over the gravy (but really, you should taste my mom’s gravy), enough people to feel celebratory but not so many that it feels […]

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2018: Passion and Grace
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Several writer-friends have referenced finding a Word of the Year; a word that somehow speaks to them and that they use as a keystone to the new year. They choose words like Growth, Embrace, Center; words that can be applied to resolutions, personal growth, work goals, and more. I love this idea, and immediately began […]

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365 Days Later: #SustainedOutrage and Resistance
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This day, one year ago, was a terrible one, and I wrote about it here. It was terrible having to face my children and somehow explain that yes, everything we valued and held dear was not valued in our country. And it was terrible knowing how many people, around the country and around the world, […]

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The #PubforPR Auction is LIVE and a matching donation
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Hi friends! A reminder that the #PubforPR auction is LIVE. And because I am enraged over where we are as a country, I will match the winning bid on my items with a donation to Everytown for Gun Safety.(And SuperAgent Marietta Zacker will join me in matching the donation on our combined item!) There are […]

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Occasionally People Can Be Wonderful
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I need to tell a story about a horrible thing that led to a lovely thing. I recently participated in an online auction called Authors For Grenfell, which was created to raise funds for the victims of the horrible fire in London. One of the items available to bid on was the chance to name […]

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