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Dallas Woodburn

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Dallas Woodburn's debut YA novel, The Best Week That Never Happened, was a #1 New Release on Amazon, a Featured Bestseller on Apple Books, a “Must Read” on Reedsy Discovery, and the Grand Prize Winner of the Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. Her short story collection How to Make Paper When the World is Ending (Koehler Books) was a Grand Prize Finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards. Dallas is also the author of the YA novels Before & After You & Me (Owl Hollow Press) and Thanks, Carissa, For Ruining My Life (Immortal Works); the nonfiction books 1,001 Ways to be Kind (Familius) and Your Book Matters (Breakthrough Books); and the short story collection Woman, Running Late, in a Dress, winner of the Cypress & Pine Short Fic ...more

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My book is here!!

It is hard to believe... but nearly two years after I signed the publishing contract... and nearly four years after I completed the first draft... and after more than two decades of dreaming about this moment... my debut novel is out in the world today!!

THE BEST WEEK THAT NEVER HAPPENED is a love story set in Hawaii, with a dash of mystery and magic, about living each day to the fullest. It is ava Read more of this blog post »
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“Before this week, I never realized that real-life romance isn’t like the movies. Things don’t have to be so serious and intense all the time. You can have intensely serious feelings for someone and be silly with them. You can go from making out to laughing, and back to making out, and that’s okay.”
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“I had that teetering-on-the-edge-of-a-cliff feeling—it would be so easy to close my eyes and let myself fall down into the unknown. But it was terrifying, that feeling. I preferred to be standing firmly on stable ground. So I did my best to pull back from the cliff’s edge.”
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“The waves sweep into us. Their unending rhythm comforts me. These waves were here when we were kids. They were here during my last visit. They were here during all the years I was somewhere else. The waves are here whether I am thinking about them or not. They simply exist. Here before we were born. Here after we die. These waves, rolling in and receding out. Constant.”
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Dallas That sounds awesome! I'm excited to see what you come up with!


Daniel Williams How you doing? I am planning our writing reality show.

Daniel


Dallas Thank you, Daniel! You too! Keep me posted!!


Daniel Williams Good job on everything. Keep up the good work.

Daniel


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