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Dear Alison and our readers, If you subscribe to my newsletter,  this is a duplicate. You don't need to keep reading but feel free to comment. If you don't then, it's new to you!!  Wishing you a joyful holiday season! Please know I'm always thinking of you and so very thankful and blessed to have you in my life.  Today,  Nerdy Book Club  is featuring a guest post I wrote,  "It's Not You, It's Me: Talking About The Things We Don't Talk About: Mental Health in YA Fiction"  by Kim Briggs. I am really proud and a little (extremely) starstruck to be featured by Nerdy Book Club. The article captures my more serious and thoughtful side, the side I don't often reveal in my newsletters, my writing, or on the blog,  InkSistersWrite,   a side I keep hidden most of the time,  but a side that's there nonetheless. I know how very difficult the holidays can be for many people, and I want you to know I am alwa...

Dear Alison and friends, You see that countdown? That's the countdown to Christmas, but I should update it for the Kim's Countdown to 20% off Manuscript Review and Writing Coach services because that deal ends tomorrow. I received a huge response via my newsletter. Evidently, people like a deal. "Who knew?" said the biggest fan of deals ever.  So I wanted to let our beloved readers in on that deal and another deal that happens tomorrow. Here's a hint...one of my books will go on sale for .99!!!  I told you I was going Holly Jolly crazy. I'll write a short post tomorrow about that deal, along with details about the New Adult Scavenger Hunt, which starts next week.  If you like to get in on the 20% off, use PROMO CODE: 2017DEAL in the comments, your reply email, or on my contact page:  KimBriggsWrite.com . Give yourself or someone you love the gift of a dream. I'll bill you through Paypal, but you don't need to send me your ma...

Dear Kim (and friends), Today's post is a package within a package within a package. I bring you a book review, interview, and giveaway, all wrapped into one post. Katherine Locke saying all the good things at SCBWI's Fall Philly. On the blog today we welcome Katherine Locke , author, cat wrangler, and YA book advocate. Recently Katherine and I connected on stage at the annual Fall Philly SCBWI Conference. We talked activism, writing, and I fanned all over her new book, The Girl with the Red Balloon . Prior to Philly, I  followed Katherine’s blog, reading her posts about character and writing, and her journey to publication. I also participated in monthly GAY YA (now YA PRIDE ) book talks on Twitter where she sometimes moderated, and often participated, I also followed her on Twitter for her insights into this crazy *** world.   Then, just prior to her book's release  YA Reads connected us via their 2017 Debut Author Bash so that we could host a giveaw...

Dear Alison and friends, Today, I am excited. I mean REALLY excited, because well, I got to hangout with my writer buddy Juliana Spink Mills via the modern way: email/twitter/IG/FB. Juliana and I met at the NYSCBWI conference a few years back and have been friends every since. Juliana has been a much better friend to me than I've been to her this past year, but my resolution for 2018 is to rid myself of some of the extra responsibilities (stay tuned for details) and focus on what's really important supporting my community and that includes my writing community and the most important components of my writing community other than my readers are my writer friends. So Juliana, w hen did you start writing? Although I’ve always liked messing around with words, I didn’t start writing ‘for real’ until I turned 40 and told myself to stop procrastinating. Sounds like 40 was the kick in the ass you needed. I just gave myself a strict deadline to finish my current W...