Cover Reveal: A Catalog of Burnt Objects + Paperback edition of As Many Nows As I Can Get

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I am thrilled to share the cover for my next novel, A Catalog of Burnt Objects, and the gorgeous redesign for the paperback release of my debut As Many Nows As I Can Get. 2025 is going to be a very exciting year!

Here is some more information about the new novel:

Seventeen-year-old Caprice wants to piece her family back together now that her older brother has returned home, even as she resents that he ever broke them apart. Just as she starts to get a new footing—falling in love for the first time, mending her relationship with her brother, completing the app that she hopes will win her a college scholarship and a job in tech—wildfires strike Sierra, her small California town, forcing her to reckon with a future that is impossible to predict. A response to the terrifying, heartbreaking events of Paradise, California, where I grew up, and a love story of many kinds, this is a tale that looks at what is lost and discovers what remains, and how a family can be nearly destroyed again and again, and still survive.

Thanks to the following wonderful folks at Penguin for their design and artwork:

Cover credits:

A Catalog of Burnt Objects Cover Illustration: David Curtis, Cover Design: Kristie Radwilowicz

As Many Nows As I Can Get Cover Design: Theresa Evangelista

New Poetry Collection: A Cage to Welcome

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I am thrilled to announce my second full-length poetry collection; A Cage to Welcome

from Stephen F. Austin State University Press.

This book is about pregnancy, global warming, and the mother-body. It’s had a particularly long gestation, anchored by a 40-poem sequence composed from self-erasures of free writes written each week of my second pregnancy.

Each of the 40 poems in 40 weeks is 38-42 words long to reflect term gestation. That pregnancy was over ten years ago and the poems were revised slowly over the last decade.

Also collected here is the poem Windows from my fine press Chapbook Winter/Windows published in 2013 from Miel, since that book is now hard to find this is a great way to get your hands on what is one of my favorite poems. Windows is about the anxiety of motherhood, loving daughters, and growing up.

If you’ve heard me talk about why I wrote As Many Nows As I Can Get, I often mention one reason was not being able to write a poem that got to the heart of a few losses in my life. The failure of my poems led me to explore writing a YA novel. Ultimately the book became its own story with only core themes remaining. But one poem “My Sister’s Memory Is Half My Own,” came from that time. You can find that poem in A Cage To Welcome too.

You can order a signed copy of A Cage To Welcome from Main Street Books Saint Charles–please write signing instructions in the “instructions” box. (You can actually order my other available books signed from them as well! This is why authors love Indie bookstores!)

New York Public Library lists As Many Nows As I Can Get as a top-ten YA of 2019

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It is still a little amazing to me that you can even check out As Many Nows As I Can Get from the NYPL. So it is pretty surreal to be named among their top 10 YA of 2019. I am so moved by this one because I believe libraries are one of the most important things in a functioning democracy. I’m serious. They save lives, house ideas, and tell kids stories. Thanks, New York Public library . I’m humbled to be listed among these great authors.