Thank you, @kirkus_reviews, for this tremendous compliment! "Her immediate chemistry with Marshall...has an addictive, electric quality that’s reminiscent of Augustus and Hazel’s in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (2012)." Any day you're compared to @johngreenwritesbooks is a good day. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
ANGELENOS! Come see me this Saturday at this super fun event at the historic Bob Baker Marionette Theater. There will be readings from a bunch of fab authors who write better than I do and some of them will probably scare the crap out of you with their spooky stories. If you haven’t heard of Shades & Shadows yet, get on it - this is the coolest literary event in L.A.
Omg! THR! Cannot wait to see what @stylehaul does with Free to Fall (and who they cast as North!!!!)
Thank you, Washington Post for yesterdays perfect FREE TO FALL companion piece: What if your car decides one death is better than two — and that one is you?
The year is 2035. The world’s population is 9 billion. The polar ice caps have totally melted and Saudi Arabia has run out of oil. Will Smith isbattling murderous robots. Matt Damon is stranded on Mars. Dippin’ Dots is finally the ice cream of the present.
You’re humming along in your self-driving car, chatting on your iPhone 37 while the machine navigates on its own. Then a swarm of people appears in the street, right in the path of the oncoming vehicle.There’s a calculation to be made — avoid the crowd and crash the owner, or stay on track and take many lives? — and no one is at the wheel to make it. Except, of course, the car itself.
Now that this hypothetical future looks less and less like a “Jetsons” episode and more like an inevitability (well, except for the bit about Dippin’ Dots), makers of self-driving cars — and the millions of people they hope will buy them — have some ethical questions to ask themselves: Should cars be programmed for utilitarianism when lives are at stake? Who is responsible for the consequences? And above all, are we comfortable with an algorithm making those decisions for us? In a new study, researchers from MIT, the University of Oregon and the Toulouse School of Economics went ahead and got some answers.
These are heady questions folks, so buckle up.
(keep reading at http://wpo.st/bzSj0)
San Francisco! Don’t miss the SHADES & SHADOWS readings at SF LitQuake 2015!
How cool is this sign? Hurry you still have 2 minutes to get to our panel at #LiteraryOrange! @TimelessAlex @LiteraryOrange @AlysonNoel @leilahowland
Made "beauty boards" with some fab teen girls last night. Each board was one girl's answer to the question "what beauty looks like to you." I was awed and inspired by their creations. There was agreement on some things (God and friendship and Taylor Swift and wildflowers got a unanimous YES vote) and much disagreement on others. So, weigh in! What's beautiful to YOU??? Thank you @justinemagazine for supplying our supplies! #latergram #picoftheday #photooftheday #instagood #girlsnightin #collage #yalit #girls #taylorswift
Have I told you guys that I'm giving a keynote speech #UTOPYA2015 in Nashville on June 19th? If you haven't heard of UtopYA, it's an amazing, collaborative and super educational conference for those who write, read and love supernatural and contemporary young adult fiction. If this sounds fun to you, and you don't have plans the weekend of June 19-21, then you're in luck, because the amazing people who put on the conference have offered to let me giveaway an ENTIRE VIP PACKAGE and it could be yours! All the glorious details are below.
It's a tweet to enter situation (through Rafflecopter), which you can do at the top of this page {or if you're on your phone, click HERE}. And even if you don't win, come anyway! So much fun stuff. I mean, c'mon, Steampunk themed karaoke?!? DO IT.
Contest ends March 4th (my birthday!) and you can enter once per day. Good luck!
WHAT COMES WITH THE VIP PACKAGE TO #UTOPYA2015:
Hey, @abigailspencer, that's us! Thank you, #WriteHerList for the honor and #WeForShe for all you do!! #TEACH #womeninfilm #girlpower
What a fun surprise on this regular old Tuesday eve. #Freetofall made the 2015 Best Fiction for Young Adults list! (In case you're experiencing insta-déjà-vu, I posted a couple months ago when the book was nominated. Didn't expect to make the final cut!). #happydance #bfya #ala
Me, talking about FtF and making some awkward hand gestures to demonstrate. Thank you to all who came out!! #MiamiBookFest
http://www.apenasumvicio.com/2014/11/promocao-dois-exemplares-de-paralela.html
@foreverbookish and me just chillin in some dude's bathroom at #TXBookFest! @xandersreviews
Talking about plotting with students at #cherokeeHS this morning. Their novel ideas are awesome!!
Authors and a giant library card! What better way to spend a Wednesday afternoon? @CamandBenny @misscecil @carriearcos @GretchenMcNeil
Have you ever thought that it would be a lot easier if someone else was making those decisions for you? Well, then this book should be in your to-read list! {Click link above to keep reading}
Have you guys heard of Germ Magazine? Their tagline is, "HIGH SCHOOL & BEYOND: REAL THOUGHTS, REAL WRITING, REAL LIFE."Check it out of if you haven't! Such a cool publication.
About had a heart attack when I saw the YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults nominations list. Holy cow, that's my name! #freetofall #ALA #BFYA #YALSA
