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!

October 12, 2020

Dana Alison Levy

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