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Patty Blount is the author of contemporary “Internet Issues” novels for teens including the 2015 Firecracker Award winning SOME BOYS, which was also a Bookseller’s Best and RITA awards finalist! Her sixth Young Adult novel, SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW, dropped August, 2018, and was named a 2019 Best Children’s Book of the Year by Bank Street College of Education. SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW is a 2019 YARWA Athena Award WINNER for both Best YA Contemporary Novel and Best of the Best.

Patty is delighted to announce a brand-new genre for her — paranormal! Her latest young adult novel is a contemporary ghost story set in Long Island and Rhode Island shore communities. Check out THE SMELL OF SMOKE AND ASH today!

She is also the author of contemporary romances. A MATCH MADE AT CHRISTMAS is book 4 in the multi-author Christmas in New York series from Tule Publishing Group (November 11, 2014). Patty wrote a sequel called THE PARAMEDIC’S RESCUE, part of the Heroes of New York series. Also out in August, 2018 was NOBODY SAID IT’D BE EASY, a second-chance love story featuring the oh-so-sweet widowed father of four, Gabriel.

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It’s all in his mind…right?	New Release! (October, 2024) Young Adult paranormal thriller
TW: “Boys will be boys” is never an excuse	Released August, 2018 2018 Junior Library Guild Fall Pick 2019 Best Children’s Book 2019 YARWA Athena Award Winner: Best YA AND Best of the Best Awards
	2017 Best Book Award Winner Young Adult Fiction category 2018 YARWA Athena Award Finalist
It only takes one click	One post could end a friendship	Some boys go too far
		2015 Rita Finalist 2015 Firecracker Award Winner 2015 Bookseller’s Best Finalist
They’ll risk everything until there’s nothing left to burn	Christmas in New York

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