Back in July of 2020, I pitched Judy [Blume] how I would reimagine this love story,” Mara Brock Akil wrote on Instagram when ...

She was proud of it, and hoped that it might someday be the centerpiece of a book of stories that would be published in a ...

She left her job in finance to be a freelance writer. Today, Andrea Mara has eight books under her belt — and a TV adaptation ...