Michele Kwasniewski
Award-winning Author of the Young Adult Series, The Rise and Fall of Dani Truehart
FALLING STAR, the final installment in the exciting Young Adult trilogy, THE RISE AND FALL OF DANI TRUEHART is here!
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Teen And Young Adult Author Michele Kwasniewski”s Debut Novel RISING STAR Is Reviewed By Publishers Weekly
August 16, 2021 https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781950544165 In Santa Clarita, Calif., dark-haired, implied-white Danilynn Marie Truehart, 15, has spent most of her life training for pop stardom, rigorously micromanaged by her avaricious, scheming Texan stage mom...
I Wrote a Young Adult Book About A 15-Year-Old Pop Star Who Went Viral. Here’s How I Feel About #FREEBRITNEY
By the time I started kicking around the idea around of writing a series about a teenage pop star, Britney Spears’ roller coaster of public scandals had come and gone and she already had settled into her conservatorship. Back then mental health was only...
Introducing BURNING BRIGHT, The Second Title In The Rise and Fall of Dani Truehart YA Book Series
Fresh off the debut of her EP, sixteen-year-old Dani Truehart is flying high on a string of number one hits. After locking down her first full-length album in record time and furiously preparing for her world tour, Dani is torn between leaving her loved ones...
How I Researched Relatable World Tour Stops for My Popular Young Adult Fiction Book About A Rising Pop Star
Dani's Journey Around The World Started With the Click Of A Mouse... When I began to write the second book in my YA series, THE RISE AND FALL OF DANI TRUEHART I felt a little bit like a fish out of water. After all, I’d spent seven years writing my first book, RISNG...
The YA Author’s Summer Juggle: Writing and Water Balloon Fights
Summers provide a special challenge as a parent. I want to spend as much time as I can with our son, soaking up every minute of fun and freedom as I can because, let’s face it, in a few years he isn’t going to want to hang with his mom at the...
Happy Birthday!
Today I’m taking a day off from blogging. It is our son’s tenth birthday and we’re out celebrating his first day as a double-digit kid! Being a mom is the best thing that has happened to me, next to meeting my husband. It was a long struggle for...