Thanks, Carissa, for Ruining My Life

Thanks, Carissa, for Ruining My Life


Congratulations to Dallas Woodburn for the release of her new novel, Thanks, Carissa, for Ruining My Life published by Immortal Works. This YA novel is the perfect friends-to-lovers romance that you won’t be able to put down. Join characters Carissa, Rose, and Brad as they navigate self-improvement, identity, and acceptance in our image-obsessed culture.

If you would like to listen to a deep dive into the book, check out Marissa Meyer’s The Happy Writer podcast where Dallas talks about the challenges of writing romance, creating powerful character arcs, and not giving up on the draft of a book you really love.

A perfect young adult romance, this slightly outlandish but totally delicious story is as contemporary as it is witty.

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Check out more of Dallas on her website and Twitter and order the book now on Amazon.

Dallas Woodburn writes with rare insight and compassion about the aching glory of being young.

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You can also read Dallas’s short story “Tarzan” in Issue 13 before it is featured in her new short story collection, How to Make Paper When World is Ending, coming out this summer from Koehler Books. Keep your eyes peeled!

SR Pod/Vod Series: Writer Dallas Woodburn

Each Tuesday we feature audio or video of an SR Contributor reading their work. Today we’re proud to feature a podcast by Dallas Woodburn.

Dallas WoodburnDallas Woodburn is a 2013-14 Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she won second place in the American Fiction Prize and her work is forthcoming in American Fiction Volume 13: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by American Writers (New Rivers Press). Her short story collection was a finalist for the 2012 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and her work has appeared in The Nashville Review, The Los Angeles Times, Louisiana Literature, Monkeybicycle, and Ayris, among others. In addition, her plays have been produced in Los Angeles and New York City.

You can listen to the podcast on our iTunes Channel.

You can read along with the work in Superstition Review.