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A Day in the Life of Sandhya Menon: 8 AM: Awake. Puppy’s staring at me. Better let him out of kennel before Puppy Dog Eyes slay me to ribbons. 9 AM: Ivories have been brushed. Tea and/or coffee has been made. PJs have been traded for comfy jeans.  9:30 AM: Stare at Twitter. Write something […]

“If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” There are a few reasons why I chose to open my YA novel Tash Hearts Tolstoy with this quote. First, it’s by Leo Tolstoy, the literary love of Tash’s […]

There are two things that I love more than anything else when it comes to reading: romance and adventure. I love them so much, I literally put them in my bio. Why? Because romance is guaranteed to make me feel everything all at once: anticipation, wonder, anger (at the inevitable misunderstandings), and, of course, the heart bursting overload of happiness! Meanwhile, […]

All of my novels have had different origins. Something Like Normal began with the voice of a Marine who wouldn’t go away until I wrote his story. Where the Stars Still Shine came about after I visited Tarpon Springs, a place so interesting and strange that I knew I needed to drop a character into […]

Here are the songs that either inspired the idea behind The Potion Diaries or helped me while I was writing it! These songs are near and dear to my heart— ‘Black Magic,’ especially, because it was released by Little Mix about the same time that The Potion Diaries launched. It seemed like serendipity! I mean, just look at […]

Now that the Riveted Summer of Love is in full swing, I think it’s safe to announce that I myself am in love…..with Kathryn Ormsbee’s Tash Hearts Tolstoy, my new favorite book! Tash Hearts Tolstoy was one of my most anticipated books of the season. I mean, the description sounded so fun: After a shout-out […]

Our Summer of Love is rolling along! We hope you’ve had a chance to dig in to all of our great love-themed reads so far, particularly the extended excerpt of Sandhya Menon’s When Dimple Met Rishi! We’ve been talking a LOT about this much-buzzed book (which incidentally, recently added New York Times bestseller to its […]

Recreate your favorite book cover (and tag us!) Visit an independent bookstore Practice bibliomancy with the book nearest to you Write a short story about summer camp Create book spine poetry See how many books you can balance in the book stacking challenge Compete against your friends in The Unexpected Everything scavenger hunt Make a […]

At the time of this posting, I am in Italy on a vacation I’ve been thinking about for years. So of course, I’ve been thinking about Jenna Evans Welch’s Love & Gelato, which says that people come to Italy for love and gelato. And while that may be true (I mean, gelato is a huge […]

There were still a few more metres to go to reach the top of the Villaricca volcano in Pucon, Chile, but I was done. Four hours of climbing straight up over loose rock, snow and glacier ice had knackered my muscles; altitude and sulphurous air made it hard to breathe; and I was carrying a […]