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17 Oct

What’s YOUR Big Idea?

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What is the one thing YOU really want to do?  Sure you may be working toward or in a career, have hobbies, enjoy sports, love spending time with family and friends – but what is your one thing – the one dream that you have? What is your Big Idea?

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Last week I posted a blog (thanks…..

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10 Oct

168 Hours in a Week, How Are You Spending Them?

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168 hours that is what you are given each week.  Are you using each hour wisely? Time is the most precious commodity we have.  Information can be distributed.  Knowledge shared. But once a year passes you by, you can’t buy it back.   Chris Stickley / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND

Teenagers often think they have endless time.  As we get older we see time pass all too…..

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03 Oct

The Daily Illini, student paper of the University of Illinois, feature article on alumni Kimberly Kolb

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Please follow this link to read the article in The Daily Illini.

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You can order a copy of Lindsey: Love & Intrigue is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble or download it to your kindle, nook or ibook.

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27 Sep

Teenage Angst: Heartbreaks & Heartthrobs, Friends & Foes, Triumphs & Tragedies

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High school lives in our minds as vividly at the age of 46 as it does at 16. Why? Because whether you are a teen going through these experiences for the first time, or you’re an adult reflecting on them, our teenage years are filled with new emotionally charged experiences. Experiences that are as vivid in our mind the week they happen as they are 30 years later.

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19 Sep

Homecoming Dresses – Something’s Missing

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Have you gone shopping for a homecoming dress lately? Who is buying these dresses? Let’s start with the fact that 80 percent of the dresses are strapless. Does everyone really want to go to a dance and spend the evening tugging their dress up? And what about all the dresses with cutouts in the middle – when did this become fashionable?

 

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19 Sep

YA Book Addict’s website Author Spotlight on my thrilling fiction, Lindsey: Love & Intrigue

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Follow this link to visit YA Book Addict’s website which has an author spotlight on my new

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thrilling fiction, Lindsey: Love and Intrigue.

If you love Young Adult or New Adult fiction you will love Lindsey!

Lindsey: Love & Intrigue is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

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10 Sep

Getting Inside the Teenage Mind

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Lindsey: Love & Intrigue starts on the first day of Lindsey’s junior year in high school. But who is Lindsey, really?  She, like all of us, is complex.  This complexity shows up as confidence in some situations, and insecurity in others, strong and powerful in some circumstances and weak and timid in others.  At times she is logical and mature in her choices, while at others she makes choices that might frustrate adults reading the book.  Why?  Because like any…..

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05 Sep

Honoring National Buy a Book Day – September 7th, 2013

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September 7, 2013 is National Buy a Book Day, so I thought I would share authors I have enjoyed over the years and some of the aspects of their writing that I aspire to include in my own work:

Stephanie Meyer.  SteLindsey Book Coverphanie is of course the author of the blockbuster Twilight…..

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28 Aug

Finally, YA Literature that Makes Teens and Their Parents Happy

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9781475987904_COVER.inddWhat inspired me to write my new novel, Lindsey: Love and Intrigue? My daughters. I’m a working mother of three, two girls and a boy. My girls want to read about realistic characters – no magic, no sci-fi, no vampires, and no zombies. They want to read about girls like themselves; girls who face the very real stresses and…..

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