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Amy Reed Fiction

YA Author of The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World, Our Stories, Our Voices, The Nowhere Girls and other books.

March 9th! Get Real with Contemporary YA Authors Amy Reed, Corrine Jackson, and Kirstin Cronn-Mills

February 7, 2013 By AmyReed Leave a Comment

March 9th! Get Real with Contemporary YA authors Amy Reed, Corrine Jackson, and Kirstin Cronn-Mills

 

Hey Bay Area folks,
I hope you can make it to my reading on Saturday, March 9th at Not Your Mother’s Book Club in San Francisco at the Opera Plaza Books, Inc. I’ll be joined by the lovely Corrine Jackson and Kirstin Cronn-Mills, two amazing contemporary YA authors. You do not want to miss this!

This will be my last event until at least June (I’ll be pretty busy having a baby), so I hope to see you there (PS: I’ll be humongous).

I plan to read a little from Crazy, plus a sneak peek of Over You, which releases June 4th. Hopefully there will be time for a Q&A at the end.

Spread the word!

Love,

Amy

Filed Under: Crazy, Over You Tagged With: amy reed, contemporary YA, Corrine Jackson, Kirstin Cronn-Mills, NYMBC

e-Galley of OVER YOU now available for review (and pre-order)!

November 13, 2012 By AmyReed 1 Comment

My next book,OVER YOU, doesn’t come out until June 2013, but e-Galleys are now available for reviewers, bloggers, librarians, and other industry-type folks! Here’s the link

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If you’re holding out for a physical ARC, you’ll have to wait a bit longer. You can send your request with this form and it will be forwarded along to my publisher.

Readers can also pre-order it here

Hooray!

Filed Under: Over You Tagged With: amy reed, contemporary YA, new release, Over You

Curious what my next book OVER YOU is about? Here you go!

August 8, 2012 By AmyReed 6 Comments

ImageMax would follow Sadie anywhere, so when Sadie decides to ditch her problems and escape to Nebraska for the summer, it’s only natural for Max to go along. She is Sadie’s confidante, her protector, and her best friend. This summer will be all about them. This summer will be perfect.

But that’s before they meet Dylan.

Dylan is dangerous and intoxicating, and he awakens something in Max that she never knew existed. No matter how much she wants to, she can’t back away.

But Sadie has her own intensity, and has never allowed Max to become close with anyone else. And Max doesn’t know who she is without Sadie.

There are some problems you just can’t escape.

Coming in summer 2013

Filed Under: Over You Tagged With: amy reed, Over You

Photos from June 12th Release Party for CRAZY

June 14, 2012 By AmyReed Leave a Comment

ImageLook at my sexy friends!

ImagePsychadelic bookstore!

ImageSepia bookstore!

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Thanks so much to the lovely Diesel bookstore for hosting!

Thanks to Brian for your fancy photography (and lots of other things).

Thanks to everyone who came and showed your support. I love you.

xoxo

Amy

Filed Under: Crazy Tagged With: amy reed, Crazy release, Diesel books

A personal message about CRAZY (and a book giveaway!)

June 12, 2012 By AmyReed 16 Comments

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Dear Reader,

Today is CRAZY’s publication birthday, but it was really born over two years ago when I started scribbling notes about a sort of love story told in emails. I had vague notions of unreliable narrators and emotional disintegration. In the back of my mind, I think I also wanted it to be a kind of apology. An explanation. So Izzy was born–a troubled girl who did not know how to be loved. And then there was Connor–the boy who loved her.

Most mental illnesses, including bipolar disorder, start displaying their first symptoms in one’s teen years–around Izzy’s age. I was fourteen when I started taking Prozac for my depression. I came of age in the first wave of medicated kids, when every day there would be a new headline about kids on Prozac, kids on Ritalin. When I was in college, OCD seemed to be the big thing. I have watched this trend grow over the years, more and more kids diagnosed with mood disorders, more kids on medication that alters their fragile brain chemistry. Whether or not these diagnoses and prescriptions are always warranted, one thing is very certain–a lot of kids are in a lot of pain.

I can honestly say that medication saved my life as a teen. At age fourteen, I was planning my suicide. I got very close to following through. But as strained as my relationship with my parents was at the time (as strained as all teens’ relationships are with their parents), I somehow gathered up the courage to tell my mom what was going on. Some glimmer of hope remained, some knowledge that I was loved, some curiosity about what would happen tomorrow. I asked for help and I got it, and that help saved my life.

It is my greatest wish that anyone out there who is feeling this kind of hopelessness and fear finds the brave place inside them and ask for help before the light of hope burns out. If this book can inspire just one reader to do that, my time on this planet will have been worth something.

I recently did an interview with Kari at A Good Addiction blog (you can read the full interview here). She asked me a great question: “Who do you think needed the other the most, Izzy or Connor?” My answer was this: It’s hard to say; they both needed each other so much. Izzy, in the end, may have needed Connor to literally save her. But she also just needed him to see her, and to care enough to do the hard thing and confront her. But Connor needed Izzy to push his buttons the way she did. Ultimately, he learned how to be brave, how to do the difficult thing instead of being passive. He risked losing everything in order to do the right thing. There’s nothing braver than that.

I believe we are all partners in the lives of those we love. We owe it to them to be honest, even when it’s hard.

To celebrate the release of CRAZY, I want to give away THREE COPIES to people who are brave–to enter, comment below with an example of when you’ve been brave and did the right thing even when it was hard. I will pick three people at random (U.S. and Canada only, please). The winners will be announced June 18th. I can’t wait to be inspired by your answers!

Finally, I want to dedicate this book to all the Izzys and Connors of the world, to everyone who has ever felt crazy or in love. I dedicate it to my husband Brian, who has loved me through everything.

Love,

Amy

 

UPDATE:

Congratulations to the winners of the CRAZY giveaway: Rachel, Lexie, and Alicia Marie! I will be contacting you soon. Thank you everyone for your beautiful answers, and for your courage. I hope we can all continue to be brave and do the right thing.

Filed Under: Crazy Tagged With: amy reed, bipolar disorder, Crazy, depression, teen mental illness

Photos from the 31st Annual Northern California Book Awards

June 10, 2012 By AmyReed Leave a Comment

Congratulations to my pal Kim Culbertson on winning the award for Children’s Literature–Young Adult! It was an honor to be nominated with her and Daniel Handler.

Here’s the lovely description of CLEAN in the program. (Thank you, Sari Friedman!)

Here’s us on the stage (with the wrong title on the screen).

Here’s me with my mysterious purple folder.

Here’s what was in the mysterious purple folder.

Thank you to Northern California Book Reviewers for nominating CLEAN for the award in Children’s Literature–Young Adult, and thanks for putting on such a great event. It was an honor to be among such great company.

xoxo,

Amy

 

Filed Under: Clean Tagged With: 31st Annual Northern California Book Awards, amy reed, Clean, Daniel Handler, Kim Culbertson

Look what I just got in the mail!

April 21, 2012 By AmyReed Leave a Comment

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A big box of CLEAN paperbacks! Hot of the presses!

The paperback officially comes out May 8 in fine stores everywhere, but you can pre-order it now. Only $7.99 on the Simon & Schuster site. What a deal!

There are a lot of books in that box, and I’d love to do something good with them. I donated a bunch of my hardcover copies to the Association of Recovery Schools, and I recently donated a huge chunk of my YA library to the Sacramento Youth Detention Facility. I really want to find some more juvenile halls or adolescent rehab facilities to send copies of CLEAN. If you know of any places like this that have libraries, please send me the info!

Love,

Amy

 

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: amy reed, Clean paperback

CRAZY Excerpt Posted! And a GIVEAWAY!

March 12, 2012 By AmyReed 23 Comments

Today is March 12, which means that my new book CRAZY comes out in exactly THREE MONTHS!

To celebrate, I am posting a SNEAK PEEK of the first 24 pages. Click HERE to read it now!

You can also pre-order CRAZY HERE!

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Filed Under: Crazy Tagged With: amy reed, ARC giveaway, Crazy, excerpt

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