Happy birthday to Deborah Gibson, my childhood hero. I figured if she could be a teenage singer-songwriter, why couldn’t I be a tweenage novelist? I had a pen pal ad in her fan club magazine, DGIF, saying “I’m a 13-year-old dedicated and devoted Debbie Gibson fan” and a major highlight of my childhood was when someone said I looked like her while I was shopping at this store called Afterthoughts at Chapel Hill Mall in Akron, Ohio. (It could’ve been the black hat.) I went to all her concerts, and her albums were the soundtrack to my middle school years… All things considered, just imagine my sheer excitement the day Deborah came to the office to congratulate OK! on its best-selling issue, which featured her ... Read More >>