![]() Every week in middle school and high school, I would read it with my dad. Essentially, I grew up in Boston reading the Boston Globe Magazine, and they have this column every week called “ Dinner with Cupid,” in which an editor sets up two people on a blind date and then interviews them about how the date went. I wanted the freedom to explore and play around with new characters and different ideas and plotlines, so the matchmaking elements are certainly inspired by real life, but to me it felt much more satisfying and creative to make that my own. ![]() ![]() I thought it would be a really fun setting for a rom-com, which is the kind of book I always wanted to write because it’s what I like to read the most. I loved the idea of writing about the world of matchmaking because it’s such a unique job that I don’t really see portrayed that much in pop culture. ![]() I don’t really have any interest in writing non-fiction. Considering you have real matchmaking experience, why did you decide to write this story through fiction as opposed to non-fiction? ![]()
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![]() ![]() Stella can now say more than 45 words, ask and answer questions, express her feelings (“mad,” “happy”), and participate in short conversations. Stella has surpassed all of Hunger’s expectations. She started with just a few recordable buttons that Stella could push to say, “outside,” “play,” and “water.” Hunger would indicate and name the object/action and push the button to say the word. Hunger began teaching Stella after noticing the gestures and vocalizations Stella was already using to express herself. ![]() “I’m in constant amazement,” says Hunger of her dog’s capabilities. Stella also pressed the button “Help” when one of the buttons she had pushed failed to elicit a sound. “She definitely says ‘outside’ the most,” Hunger told CNN. ![]() Other Stella phrasings include, “Park love you come outside!” For example, upon hearing a noise outside, an excited Stella put together “Look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look! Come outside!” forming perhaps the most dog-like sentence ever. ![]() Using a custom soundboard, Stella pushes buttons to form phrases up to five words in length. Doggone amazing: Speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger taught her dog Stella to communicate using the same method she uses to teach children to learn and speak words. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The USA Today Bestselling Author (as Tymber) and two-time EPIC award winner is also the author of over two hundred books and counting. When she's not playing D&D with her friends or shooting skeet, she's a part-time Viking shield-maiden in training, among other pursuits. She lives in the Tampa Bay region of Florida with her spouse, writer Jon Dalton/Haley Jordan, and too many pets. T Lesli Richardson is the writer behind the curtain of her better-known pen name, Tymber Dalton (her "wild child" side). ![]() She also loves to hear from readers! Please check out her website for links, and to sign up for updates to keep abreast of the latest news, snarkage, and releases. She lives in her own little world, but it's okay, because they all know her there. Lesli Richardson is the writer behind the curtain of her better-known pen name, Tymber Dalton (her "wild child" side). ![]() ![]() ![]() In this riveting novel, Sarah Dessen searches for understanding and answers through the mind of a young girl who suddenly finds herself in a trap of constant menace, a trap that is baited with love and need. Why do girls allow themselves to get into such relationships and what keeps them there? Yet shame, fear, and assumed guilt keep many in a conspiracy of silence about this widespread but invisible anguish. Caitlin wanders in a dreamland of drugs and a nightmare of sudden fists, trapped in her search for herself.Īs violence becomes more and more prevalent in our world, one out of every five teenage girls in America will be beaten by a dating partner, and one third to one half of married women will be victims of abuse. ![]() But now she is drowning in the vacuum Cass left behind when she turned her back on her family's expectations. With him she could be anybody, not just the second-rate shadow of her two-years-older sister Cass. Strange, sleepy Rogerson, with his long brown dreads and brilliant green eyes, had seemed to Caitlin to be an open door. ![]() ![]() "When he hit me, I didn't see it coming, It was just a quick blur, a flash out of the corner of my eye, and then the side of my face just exploded, burning, as his hands slammed against me." ![]() ![]() ![]() She doesn’t like the man or anything he stands for, though that doesn’t stop her heart from pattering like rain against glass when he’s near, nor the shiver that ghosts down her spine at the sound of his voice.Īnd he’s always near. After his and Elena’s first encounter ends with an accidental glare on her part, she realizes he’s just as rude as he is handsome. His reputation stretches far and wide and is darker than his black suits and ties. ![]() A Made Man, a boss, a cheat-even measured against mafia standards. In the murky waters of New York’s underworld, Elena’s sister is arranged to marry Nicolas Russo. ![]() They say first impressions are everything. Now, all she can see in the mirror’s reflection is blood staining her hands like crimson paint. She’s the favored daughter, the perfect mafia principessa. Nicknamed Sweet Abelli for her docile nature, Elena smiles on cue and has a charming response for everything. She’s a romantic at heart, living in the most unromantic of worlds. ![]() |