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Julie Anne Peters

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►Less than a month to go before my new YA novel, It's Our Prom (So Deal With It), is OUT. Read The Story Behind the Story and an Excerpt here. Be an early bird and preorder copies now.

►Turkish rights have been sold for By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead.

►As we cyber chat, gorgeous reissued copies of Keeping You a Secret are being delivered to your local bookstores.

►I’ve now posted three stories for the online collection of grl2grl 2. If you don’t have an e-reader, you can download a free one from Adobe. If you do download this e-reader, use Epub to download the stories.

►Also available for download: middle-grade novels, Risky Friends, Love Me, Love My Broccoli, and children’s books, The Stinky Sneakers Contest, and B.J.’s Billion-Dollar Bet.

►Explore the joint website of my accomplished critique group, The Wild Writers. Our ongoing blogs will provide you with terrific writing and illustrating tips, and our mascot, The Whiney Writer, promises a laugh or two as she plunges into the real world of trying to make it as an artiste.

To the utter amazement and absolute shock of everyone I know -- including me -- I became an author. An author? I never wanted to be an author. I thought authors were just a bunch of dead people. Okay, sometimes I'm brain-dead (does that count?). As a child I wasn't a reader. You’ve heard of reluctant readers? I was a recalcitrant reader. You couldn’t make me read. Reading was boring. I never read a book for fun until seventh grade when I discovered the Beany Malone books by Lenora Mattingly Weber. I loved them. Beany was real; she was alive, and she even had freckles. Every week I would rush to the Clear Lake Junior High library to check out the next book in the Beany Malone series, and if somebody else already had it I would reread one of the Beany books I'd already read -- over and over again. When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities. My greatest joy is when I hear from young people who say they've never been readers until they found my books.

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