The carnis are all kissing & telling today! Here’s one of my favorite kissing scenes from 13 ON HALLOWEEN. Twelve-year-old Roxie wants two things more than anything. She wants to become popular––a peacock, in Roxie Speak. And she wants a guy named Hayden, the coolest guy at school, to notice her. So, she throws her …
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Greetings! Hope you are having a wonderful Holiday Season! We had an unusual Christmas here because our oven is broken. And so, we BBQ’d. It was kind of funny. I mean, we live in CA and the weather was perfect for BBQ, but I fought it at first. I was really disappointed. I mean Christmas …
I can’t tell you how much I love Halloween. It seems that at every stage of my life there is a Halloween memory that tops the last. But childhood Halloweens have a special place. Maybe it’s because nothing can ever be quite as magical as a child at Halloween, no matter how extravagant the party. …
Each Monday this October, I’m going to feature my favorites from my 26 Halloween Ghost Stories collection which you can download for free here. This is a story I wrote while I was living in Big Sur. I was inspired by the legend of the secret caves hidden along California’s central coast. THE SEVEN CAVES …
This week is all about character. Here’s 13 on Halloween’s Dream Cast: Chloe Moretz as Roxie O’Grady : Roxie Speak: Tarantulas– scares the heck out of people Hamsters– hops from one thing to the other without really doing anything Cats– annoys the heck out of me Owls– knows everything Zebras– thinks everything is black and …
So much of 13 ON HALLOWEEN explores ideas of luck, good and bad, and lucky charms. Even what it means to be lucky. Our perceptions have a lot to do with luck. I think positive people get lucky more often. I don’t really have one good luck charm or a lucky outfit like Roxie, the …
In this teaser from 13 on Halloween, Roxie is getting ready for her first birthday party ever. Her thirteenth birthday. On Halloween. I sit in front of the magic mirror my grandpa gave me and want to watch Ally work her magic but she tells me to close my eyes. “So it’s like this. The …
MY INDIE IDOL: The bestselling YA author M. Leighton! For those of you familiar with the Blood Like Poison series, you know Lucius. Sexy. Flirtatious. Irish. Vampire. But for those of you who haven’t, I’d like to introduce you to him. He will be the subject of the next book in the Blood Like Poison …
