How to please the young readers in your life: How to Save a Life
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
How to Save a Life, the new novel by my favorite YA novelist, Sara Zarr, is now in stores, and I highly recommend you pick up a copy for any young adult in your life who is willing to sit down, open a book, and pay attention. (I understand that we’re talking about an endangered species.)
I’ve been following Sara’s work since before her first novel was published, as we met in a fiction workshop in Santa Fe. It’s been a joy to see her work embraced and celebrated. And I’m thrilled to have contributed a very small piece to the new project: the author photo. (Sara and her husband joined Anne and me for a week’s vacation at Fort Casey on Whidbey Island, where I happened to snap that shot.)
Here’s what Sara has to say about her writing at Good Letters: (more…)