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Introducing: The Invisible Boy

Introducing: The Invisible Boy

Apr 25, 2019

I’m so excited to share some information about my second book, The Invisible Boy! I already had the idea for this story back when I sold The Eleventh Trade. Now, almost two years and ten drafts later, I’m diving into the final sets of edits, getting the cover, and preparing to introduce the world to Nadia Quick. She’s an aspiring journalist (in the tradition of her hero, Lois Lane) and the only things she likes more than good stories are crazy leggings.   The Invisible Boy launches June 9, 2020! Add it on Goodreads  Cover art by Deborah Lee Nadia...

The Eleventh Trade: Moodboard

The Eleventh Trade: Moodboard

Jun 15, 2016

  Farewell music! Even your sweetest tunes are best kept silent The Taliban on the edge of the village have stilled all lips   When the Taliban invaded Afghanistan, Sami lost everything — everything except his grandfather, and the rebab. Sami and his grandfather make a new life in Boston. But one day when Sami is playing the rebab at a T station, a teenager snatches the instrument and jumps on the T. The doors snap shut, and the rebab is gone. When Sami finds it again in a pawnshop, the shopkeeper won’t return the instrument, but he offers to...

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Alyssa was born in small town Milton, Florida, but life as a roving military kid soon mellowed her (unintelligibly strong) Southern accent. Wanderlust is in her blood, and she’s always waiting for the wind to change. Stories remain her constant.

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Alyssa Hollingsworth
Alyssa was born in small town Milton, Florida, but life as a roving military kid soon mellowed her (unintelligibly strong) Southern accent. Wanderlust is in her blood, and she’s always waiting for the wind to change. Stories remain her constant.

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