Building a Book

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July 8th, 2017 | Books, Building a Book

Last year, I embarked on an experiment where I invited a select group of readers to design a new character for the Something Like… series. This was done through a number of polls. From there, we took this new character and plonked him down in Austin, Texas to see what would happen. My job was...

Something Like Summer the Movie – Now Filming!

August 26th, 2015 | Building a Book, Movies, Random, Something Like Summer

The time has come! Filming starts tomorrow. I know many of you have been asking with increasing impatience when this would finally happen. Me? I was holding my breath for much of that time, because so much could have gone wrong. Plenty of books are optioned for film. More than we’ll ever know, because the...