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Author: Kaitlyn Sage Patterson

Kaitlyn Sage Patterson grew up with her nose in a book outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. After completing her M.F.A., she moved to South Korea, where she taught English and started writing her debut novel. THE DIMINISHED will be published by HarlequinTEEN in April 2018, followed by its sequel in 2019. When she's not staring off into space and trying to untangle some particularly troublesome plot point, she can be found in her kitchen, perfecting the most difficult recipe she can find; or at the barn, where she rides and trains dressage horses; or with her husband, spoiling their sweet rescue dogs.
  • Posted on Friday, August 31, 2018Friday, August 31, 2018
  • by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson

So Long, And Thanks For All the Fish

As I contemplated this post, I wondered what more I could say. I feel like I’ve pulled back the curtain…

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  • Posted on Friday, August 24, 2018Friday, August 24, 2018
  • by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson

To All the Words I’ve Loved Before

I know I made a lot of mistakes while writing and publishing The Diminished. I know because it’s literally impossible to not make…

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  • Posted on Friday, August 17, 2018Friday, August 17, 2018
  • by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson

How to Birth a Book

This week we are talking about launch parties! As I thought about writing this post, I found myself wishing that…

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  • Posted on Saturday, August 11, 2018Friday, August 10, 2018
  • by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson

Interview with L.L. McKinney, Author of A Blade So Black

L.L. McKinney is a writer, a poet, and an active member of the kidlit community. She’s an advocate for equality…

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  • Posted on Friday, August 10, 2018Thursday, August 9, 2018
  • by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson

Trunked: A Love Story

I have a veritable stockpile of poems none of y’all are ever going to read, and you should thank your lucky…

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  • Posted on Friday, August 3, 2018Friday, August 3, 2018
  • by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson

Book Two and the Reviewers in My Ear

I wrote The Exalted, the sequel to The Diminished, in late 2016 and early 2017. By the time I began editing The Diminished,…

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  • Posted on Friday, July 27, 2018
  • by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson

Taking From Our World to Build Something New

Much like Cass, I am, by training, as much a historian as I am a writer. I took more history…

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  • Posted on Friday, July 20, 2018
  • by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson

What Do We Want? Success! When Do We Want It? Now!

I had the great good fortune to meet a group of wonderful veteran YA authors about a year before my…

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  • Posted on Friday, July 13, 2018Friday, July 13, 2018
  • by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson

Breadcrumbs in The Diminished

I didn’t think much about Easter eggs when I was writing The Diminished. So much of my focus was on making…

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  • Posted on Friday, July 6, 2018
  • by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson

Taking Up Space

I am, by nature, a people pleaser. I think it’s a trait that a lot of women struggle with, whether…

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