Author: AmyMatayo

A couple of times in the last few months, I’ve posted links to websites and pages that belong to the daughters of friends of mine. Teenagers who have a special…

This one releases Sept. 27 through Waterfall Press, and I'm so excited about it. It was possibly my most challenging book to write so far, mainly because of all of the…

Eight years ago I went to a conference in New York City—my very first writer’s conference—and I was soooo nervous. While there, I and all the other amateurs were informed…

(Title should be sung to the tune of Carrie Underwood's "Undo It.") Anyway. I love my job. LOVE my job. But years ago, I didn’t know all of the little side things…

My friend Don has his first book out today! I can say from experience that book launch day is an awesome day--but there's nothing like the release of your very…

Here I am writing my second blog post in a week. My website, my fingers, myself—we’ve all gone into shock over the whole thing. But even though I’m not normally…

This time a year ago, life was rough for me. I won’t go into detail, but friendships had faded and some had gone away completely, family was strained in some…

Excited about this one! Out March 29. Preorder up now.   http://bit.ly/1RDONgd (Barnes and Noble) http://amzn.to/1RTx0Et (Amazon)

http://amzn.to/1mg1up0   So I started writing this book forever ago. Like, sometime in the middle of 2014. It was one of those books that was easy to write--I knew the…