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The Hate U Give is out October 22nd across the UK.

Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds: the poor, mostly black, neighborhood where she lives and the rich, mostly white, prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what’s right.

Based on the critically acclaimed bestseller by Angie Thomas and starring Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, Issa Rae, KJ Apa, Algee Smith, Sabrina Carpenter, Common and Anthony Mackie.

See The Hate U Give In Cinemas Now. Book your tickets here

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Saw this Sunday. Cried like a baby and haven’t stopped thinking about it since. If the world has to be what it is, I’m glad this movie exists in the world.

It’s always the best feeling to actually hold it in my hand.

It’s here! TWIN is out in the world!

“It was a lot harder to believe you might lose a war when you could still laugh on the morning of the last battle.”

—Alwyn Hamilton, Hero at the Fall

This week I make the case for inappropriate laughter.

“This is the key to ending our isolation. We have to take the good and the bad together. We have to stop ignoring or condemning the cracks and peek through them instead. We have to accept that it’s complicated.”

Guysssss! See my pretty cover!

I’m completely over the moon.

“It would be so much easier to cling to my current pile of knowledge and accomplishments and refuse to budge. So what if my pile is partially garbage? It’s still tempting to say “No! I’m the king of this pile of garbage. It smells awful, but at least I rule here.”

Or I can swallow my fear, put my ego aside, and muster the strength to climb down off of my pile of garbage and build again, build better than before.”

Today I tackle certainty and why we can never have it.

“But your current location (no matter where it is) isn’t a detour from your life; it IS your life.”

Check it out! I wrote a series of short stories recounting the history that leads up to my novel TWIN which comes out in a few weeks. Those stories are now collected in an ebook, and you can get it for free! Get one for yourself and tell your friends!

Just over here getting pummeled by the truth.

Why we need more women writing science fiction. Why we need to read the ones we have.

I’m blogging again and thinking about magic.

“The tales would be imperfect; the legends would be incomplete. And each and every one of us standing in the garden that night would take an entire universe of stories with us when we died, the accounts of every small moment that did not seem grand enough to storytellers, which would disappear in smoke when our bodies were burned. But even if the desert forgot a thousand and one of our stories, it was enough that they would tell of us at all. That long after our deaths, men and women sitting around a fire would hear that once, long ago, before we were all just stories, we lived.” Hero at the Fall by Alwyn Hamilton Loved this book and flew through it. What a great series.

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“Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

We are quite naturally impatient in everything

to reach the end without delay.

We should like to skip the intermediate stages.

We are impatient of being on the way to something

unknown, something new.

And yet it is the law of all progress

that it is made by passing through

some stages of instability—

and that it may take a very long time.

And so I think it is with you;

your ideas mature gradually—let them grow,

let them shape themselves, without undue haste.

Don’t try to force them on,

as though you could be today what time

(that is to say, grace and circumstances

acting on your own good will)

will make of you tomorrow.

Only God could say what this new spirit

gradually forming within you will be.

Give Our Lord the benefit of believing

that his hand is leading you,

and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself

in suspense and incomplete.

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I can’t stop thinking about this today. Accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. This is the tension where real life is lived. This is the agitation where real art is made.

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom Well written, but not my favorite kind of historical fiction. Read it in a day, but I really have to remind myself to stay away from this kind of book club book.

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“‘Something is happening, here, tonight. I feel it.” “As do I. But I don’t know what it is.” “You mean you have no name for it,” she corrected him. “We both cannot help but know what this is. We grow. We become.” Wintrow found himself smiling into the night. “We become what?” he asked of her. She turned to face him, the chiseled planes of her wooden face catching the reflected gleam of the distant lights. She smiled up at him, lips parting to reveal her perfect teeth. “We become us,” she said simply. “Us, as we were meant to be.’”

—Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, book 1) by Robin Hobb

Wintrow mirrored my soul in this book. All the characters are so well-developed, and their motivations are real. You don’t find much epic fantasy written by women, but this is an argument for why there should be more.

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Rebel of the Sands, by Alwyn Hamilton In spite of the terrible title, this was a fun book. Definitely continuing the series.

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