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(beaming) I am not just excited about getting an agent, I am excited about getting to work with HER! She loves and is excited about my new manuscript (and my other books), is warm, smart, and funny. She’s also kind, honest, and responsive, gives editorial feedback, likes dark and edgy books like mine, and loves diversity including #LGBTQIA characters. A literary agent can get a writer’s book into publishers that a writer can’t get into on their own.

We put up glow-in-the-dark unicorns on their ceiling, played freeze tag and statue, and they read me the books that they wrote and drew themselves. They are such smart, creative, funny, playful girls. and I showed them all the books I wrote (and have had published). They had written and drawn their own books before but now they have created more.

I’m reading CROWN OF FEATHERS by Nicki Pau Preto which I am still LOVING so much, with my little Petal who is such a snugglebug. Strong, smart girl characters, magic and animal telepathy, a queer romance, cultural diversity – and beautifully, engagingly written

I am super excited for the Feb Uppercase box that I got from generous reader and friend Lynn Postlewait. I just started CROWN OF FEATHERS by Nicki Pau Preto and already I’m loving it; just the first few pages tell me that it is beautifully written. I love YA fantasy, especially with strong girls, and strong queer girls? I also loved the quote magnet for CROWN OF FEATHERS, the positive-message postcard by Victor Hugo, and the Raised by Books pencil case from Out of Print.