Interview up at Riding Through Life

Sixteen-year old Christine was kind enough to interview me for her awesome blog, Riding Through Life. She's a homeschooler, like I was, a rider and a supercool girl. Check out the interview! Thank you, Christine! :)

Thank you :)

Happy Saturday!

I'm just about to start writing, but wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone for embracing my DearTeenMe.com essay. It went viral like I'd never imagined and the Tweets, comments, emails, etc., about it were so kind.

I've got a *lot* of work to do this weekend, so I'm going to get to it, but thank you all again.

I hope everyone's doing something fun!

xoxo

I'm up at Dear Teen Me

I'm very proud that my essay is posted on Dear Teen Me. It wasn't easy to write and, honestly, I'm feeling kind of queasy/excited right now. It was a great exercise for me, personally, and as a writer. My YA proposal, KEPT, is about this very topic and now it feels like people are getting a sneak peek at what KEPT is about. (If you're interested in more about KEPT, e-mail me or check my Publishers Marketplace page for details.)

But a portion of the essay is on DTM and you can read the full piece on my Jessica Ashley blog post right here.

*Please note that this essay contains some mature content.

Tonight's Pretty Little Liars finale!

Tonight is the finale of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS! *sobs* K and I love, love the series and it's usually the show we work to. I've read all of the books and K's making her way through the series.

I hope tonight's finale delivers and I can't wait for the show to return.

In honor of PLL, Kate and I wanted to feel pretty too, so we did a Queen Helene face mask (above) and did a little extra make up.

Anyone else watching tonight?

45 days and counting . . .

till CHOSEN releases! I'm sooooooooo excited about this book! It's the first ever Canterwood super special and Kate and I worked our butts off on this book. Notice I said "first" super special? Welllll, I'm announcing it for the first time that there will be another super special! A holiday themed one. :) I'm superthrilled to be writing about the holidays, winter, parties, horses in the snow, etc. It's going to be so. much. fun. I hope you guys like the plan, too!

It's going to be a non-stop working weekend for me. I'll be writing INITIATION. It's coming along well so far. A little slow with the beginning just because I still heard Sasha's voice in my head, but now I hear Lauren. I absolutely love her and I think you will too.

I want to know your weekend plans! Doing anything fun? Reading anything good? Spill!

Back to writing with Pretty Little Liars in the background.

Love to Team Canterwood.


xoxo

Just an FYI . . .

(Cross-posted from Violet & Ruby)

Violet and I just found out that there may be someone out there posing as "Violet & Ruby." Though this may just be a big misunderstanding (we hope so, at least). But please be sure that when you're looking for us, stick to this website and this website only (other than our twitter account and each of our separate pages) until further notice.

Sorry about any confusion this may have caused . . . we are both profoundly confused ourselves. But it's safe to continue to visit this site for any updates about the real deal Violet & Ruby :)

Have a good night, all!

A gorgeous Team Eric video

I just found this AMAZING Team Eric video on YouTube from HorseAddict16's channel.

Thank you so much, HorseAddict16! Kate and I watched the video twice and I'm going to buy Taylor Swift's song right now! If anyone else creates a video in the future, please let me know so I can favorite it.

Enjoy, everyone!