Hi there! I’m Lance Rubin, award-winning author of YA novels Denton Little’s Deathdate, Crying Laughing, and Denton Little’s Still Not Dead.

I also co-wrote Monster Club: Monsters Take Manhattan (with filmmakers Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel), The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek (with Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal of Good Mythical Morning), and the Off-Broadway musical Broadway Bounty Hunter (with Joe Iconis and Jason SweetTooth Williams).

I love talking and thinking about creativity and writing, and I also love grappling with this sometimes-wonderful-more-often-stupid tech moment we’re living in.

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Lance Rubin

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Author of acclaimed YA/MG novels, including Zed Moonstein Makes a Friend (out this August), Denton Little's Deathdate, and Crying Laughing. Co-writer of Monster Club and Lost Causes of Bleak Creek. Huge fan of empathy.