2016 – Page 2 – stephanie kuehn

YALLWEST schedule and more

Hello! This is a quick post with information on where I’ll be this weekend at YALLWEST in Santa Monica. My schedule will be as follows:

Saturday:

Signing: 12 noon

Panel: 1:00 pm

WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW – OR WHAT YOU WANT?

Humanities Building

Why do some writers choose to reflect their personal experiences in their books, while others use fiction to explore something completely new or different?

Moderated by Stephanie Kuehn, with John Corey Whaley, Brandy Colbert, Alex Gino, Julie Murphy, Sarah Burnes, Jo Volpe, Jodi Reamer, Erin Stein, Richard Abate

Sunday:

Panel: 1:00 pm

THE STRUGGLE IS

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A March hare, a blurb, COMPLICIT's release day, and more

So far it’s managed to rain the entire month of March. Seeing as I’m in California, that’s been a good thing. Our hills are green; our Sierras white. Other good things have happened this March, too. My daughter, my mother, and I recently traveled to Turlock for the state Rabbit and Cavy Convention (cavies are guinea pigs). My daughter shows her Netherland dwarf and does 4-H showmanship (where she’s judged on how she presents her rabbit), and we also got her a new rabbit: a broken baby Polish buck she has named Harlequin (broken refers to his color). … read the rest

here's to an early spring

Groundhog Day is here, and already it feels as if this year is speeding ahead without me when I’m not looking. My kid’s baseball season starts today (and it’s raining), the Super Bowl is in town, The X-Files is back, and I have a book due this month, which I am in the midst of furiously revising.

I also recently received ARCs of The Smaller Evil, which are beautiful and which means this book is almost a real thing. It’s always a lovely moment in the publishing process and also a bittersweet one—a ritual, really—this baton passing of … read the rest

Morris Award Finalist Interview: Kelly Loy Gilbert, author of CONVICTION

Today I’m wrapping up this fabulous week of Morris Award finalist interviews by sharing a conversation I had with the lovely Kelly Loy Gilbert, author of CONVICTION. Truth be told, I’ve had been a huge fan of this book ever since I read it last spring and I am so very happy to see it being recognized by this year’s Morris Committee. CONVICTION is the story of Braden, a high school pitching star whose life is thrown into chaos when his evangelical radio-host father is indicted in the murder of a police officer. Braden’s estranged brother Trey comes … read the rest

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