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Debbie Cohen

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The United States

Website

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Genre

Contemporary, Young Adult, Fiction

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Debbie Cohen is a California-based journalist and novelist.

She became an Indie author with the publication of her first book, Keeper of the Scale, available through Amazon as both an e-book and paperback, and through Barnes and Noble and various online bookstores.

A member of the Authors Guild, she is thrilled to announce that her second book, a Young Adult/New Adult Contemporary novel, is in the works!

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*Check out her blogs here on Goodreads as well as on Tumblr at:
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	Keeper of the Scale (The Diet Buddies #1) 3.60 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 12 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Why Spring Makes Me Happy

In the spring, anything seems possible ...

With spring just around the corner, I am especially excited to have joined a cohort of children/young adult novelists accepted into a new Author's Guild Launchpad Pilot Program for Book Marketing and Publicity!

My new book, a Young Adult Contemporary, will be out by the summer, and learning how to reach more readers couldn't have come at a better time.

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Debbie’s Quotes

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

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“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

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