Danielle Dreger

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About Danielle Dreger

Danielle wears many (baseball) hats. By day she is a teen librarian north of Seattle, by night she is the writer of gritty and witty stories set in the humid hell of Central Florida.

Danielle spent her formative years in the Tampa Bay Area driving into neighborhood signs, breaking curfew, and writing bad poetry before moving to Boston to become a librarian. She now hangs her Tampa Bay Rays hat in Seattle.

Danielle is also a avid baseball fan, lazy gardener, occasional swimmer, and voracious reader. Sleeping is her superpower. When not doing any of the above, Danielle is chasing around her tiny tornado, BB, who has inherited her bad decision-making and good storytelling genes.

Before devoting her professional life to writing and reading and libramy-two-babesries, Danielle worked as a secretary, florist assistant, camp counselor, college radio DJ and station manager, bookseller, house cleaner, blogger, and travel writer. She was previously the Seattle Books Examiner for Examiner.com and is a current contributor to NICU Family Voices (the official blog for Hand to Hold). Her short stories and essays can be found in Cleaver Magazine, The Dime Show Review, Creative Truth Journal, 200cc's, Pinch Journal, The Offbeat, and Fiction Fix.

Her first YA novel, Secret Heart was published in 2016. She is the author ofTourism for Broken Hearts, The Ten Fantastic Fails of Rory O'Leary, and Bad at Love and the forthcoming The Way You Make Me Feel.

Follow her on Twitter: @danielledregerb
Visit her online @ danielledreger.com

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Secret Heart (Oak Bluffs High Book 1) Oct 11, 2016

by Danielle Dreger

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Avery Jennings is a punk-rock guitarist with a secret weakness for rom-coms and Taylor Swift. Her band, Detonate the Gazelle is ready to move to Austin after graduation, but Avery is having second thoughts. She’s fallen hard for Madison Shea, student council president with a douchebag boyfriend, after their orbits collide at Oak Bluff High’s inaugural Gay-Straight Alliance meeting. Even though it goes against her rules about crushing on straight girls, Avery relentlessly pursues Madison. Their chemistry is too magnetic to deny and soon they are making out in car washes and school bathrooms and holding hands under tables. Avery wants to take their relationship public but Madison is afraid of her conservative family’s reaction and that it’ll ruin her chances as Prom Queen. Their secret relationship is put to the ultimate test when student council vetoes a proposal for a gay-friendly prom and the club decides to throw a free Unprom the same night as Prom with Detonate the Gazelle as the headliner. If Unprom proves to be more popular than Prom, Madison will hold it against her and Avery will lose her shot at taking her relationship with Madison public. What started off as a love song may have just turned into a breakup ballad.

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Bad at Love (Oak Bluffs High Book 2) Jan 29, 2019

by Danielle Dreger

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Lexi Hamilton is bad at love, but great at dispensing advice with her Magic 8 ball on her call-in radio show. She’s not the heartbreaker her classmates assume her to be. Ever since her mom died last spring, Lexi’s been quelling her grief by kissing strangers at parties and slinging soft serve at the Dairy Kurl. Senior year should be cake as long as her aunt’s cats don’t kill her and she keeps her frenemy Erin Burton from stealing her radio show.

When Oak Bluff High’s administration decides to sell the radio station, Lexi and her friends fight back. Lexi forms a temporary truce with Erin to help save the station. The more time they spend together, the more Lexi thinks about kissing Erin and less about how irritating she is, especially after Erin helps Lexi navigate the awkward reappearance of Lexi’s bio dad, a Hollywood actor with an agenda. If only the Magic 8 Ball could predict the fate of the station and of her heart.

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Reckless Night You Won't Regret (Oak Bluffs High Book 3) May 28, 2019

by Danielle Dreger

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Allie Jensen has harbored a secret crush on her best friend, Siobhan, since freshman year. When Siobhan dumps her long-term girlfriend, Marjon, on graduation night, Allie thinks it's a sign. Siobhan's headed to Boston for a summer program the next day, and Allie has thirteen hours to tell Siobhan how she really feels. It's bound to be a wild night that neither one of them will ever forget.

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Tourism for Broken Hearts: Stories Sep 11, 2018

by Danielle Dreger

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The seven stories in Tourism for Broken Hearts examine the toll travel takes on relationships. In "The Night Cat" a young tourist experiments with graffiti. Marriages are tested in "Second Honeymoon," "Circling the Drain," and "Dead End." "Tourism for Broken Hearts" mark the end of a relationship. "The Baths" and "Six Hours in Santorini," explore the sexuality of suburban soccer moms.

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The Ten Fantastic Fails of Rory O'Leary Nov 28, 2018

by Danielle Dreger

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8th grader Rory O’Leary is struggling with her dual identities of a middle school cheerleader and the middle daughter of the only Lutheran pastor in a Baptist town as well as her recent diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder. An unfortunate underwear incident and barf tsunami during the Reformation Sunday service leaves her a victim of bullying and blackmail from her former best friend, Laura.

To complicate things further Rory must not only set up her older brother, Mark, with Laura as part of Laura’s blackmail scheme, but she must also portray Santa Lucia and sing a solo at a special church service in December. The prospect of a repeat puke performance sends her anxiety into overdrive. Rory’s mom believes that if she can’t participate as Santa Lucia because of her anxiety, she should let cheerleading go. If Rory fails at setting Mark and Laura, Laura will show everyone the video of her puking (and underwear) in church which could jeopardize her place on the cheerleading squad as the video could break the team morality clause. Add in a difficult relationship with her mom, new feelings for her friend Will, confirmation service projects, and bad luck that seems to follow her around, Rory is destined to have quite a few fails before figuring things out.

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The End of Them: a short story Aug 21, 2018

by Danielle Dreger

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Jared's promposal to Libby goes awry when he unexpectedly reveals a secret he's been hiding.

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Driftless Review: 3.0 Feb 28, 2015

by Kara Candito , Russell Brickey , Colin Lessig , William Yazbec , Terry Burns , Angela Jones

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The Driftless Review is published by Platteville Poets, Writers and Editors, LLC, an organization dedicated to showcasing the works of emerging and established writers whose creative journeys have in some way brought them through the Driftless Region: the distinctive landscape of rolling hills and river valleys which join southwest Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota, and northeast Iowa. While we do showcase local writers, we accept submissions from anyone.

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