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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Inland by Kat Rosenfield, Blog Tour: Guest Post

Welcome to today's stop in Penguin Teen's INLAND blog tour. 
Today I'm thrilled to have author Kat Rosenfield on the blog. Before she talks about what made her want to be a writer, here's a little bit about INLAND:


Published by: Dutton / Penguin Teen
Released on: June 12th 2014
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Inland Summary
Callie Morgan has long lived choked by the failure of her own lungs, the result of an elusive pulmonary illness that has plagued her since childhood. A childhood marked early by the drowning death of her mother—a death to which Callie was the sole witness. Her father has moved them inland, away from the memories of the California coast her mother loved so much and toward promises of recovery—and the escape of denial—in arid, landlocked air.

But after years of running away, the promise of a life-changing job for her father brings Callie and him back to the coast, to Florida, where Callie’s symptoms miraculously disappear. For once, life seems delightfully normal. But the ocean’s edge offers more than healing air … it holds a magnetic pull, drawing Callie closer and closer to the chilly, watery embrace that claimed her mother. Returned to the ocean, Callie comes of age and comes into a family destiny that holds generations of secrets and very few happy endings.



What made you want to be a writer?
Guest post by Kat Rosenfield


Oh man, everything. I love being able to tell stories. I love that I can spend all day just rattling around in my own head and dragging out the weirdest, wildest stuff I can find in there. I love playing with language and ideas and imagery.

And I especially love that being a writer means being surrounded by people who feel the same way, who believe that books are important, because I know what it's like not to have that, and it's just soul-crushing. I had many jobs before I became a writer, and I was so bored and so terrible at all of them except on the rare occasions that I was given something creative to do. I was really starting to feel like there was something really wrong with me, that I had missed out on some essential gene that I needed in order to become a normal, successful adult and play well with other worker bees. It was a relief to finally realize that I just had a different kind of ability, and I needed to do a different kind of work. (Namely, the kind of work that you do in your apartment, with unbrushed hair and no pants on.)

About author Kat Rosenfield




Kat Rosenfield is a writer, illustrator, advice columnist, entertainment journalist, zombie enthusiast, and author of two YA novels: AMELIA ANNE IS DEAD AND GONE (Dutton, July 2012) and INLAND (Dutton in June 2014.) When not writing fiction, she can be found shamelessly gossiping about movies and celebrities as a contributor for MTV News, and offering relationship and life advice as the resident agony aunt on Barnes & Noble's SparkLife.

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