E. Lockhart's Blog: Cybils!

YA Writers Online

Alex Sanchez
(who wrote Rainbow Boys, etc.)
Amy Kaye
(who wrote The Real Deal)
Andrew Auseon
(who wrote Funny Little Monkey)
Bennett Madison
(who wrote Lulu Dark and The Blonde of the Joke)
Brent Hartinger
(who wrote Geography Club, The Royal Order of the Poison Oak, and The Last Chance Texaco)
Carolyn Mackler
(who wrote The Earth, My Butt, & Other Big Round Things, etc.)
Cat Bauer
(who wrote Harley, Like a Person)
Cathy Hopkins
(who wrote Mates, Dates & Inflatable Bras -- and many others)
Cecily Von Ziegesar
(who wrote Gossip Girl and all its sequels)
Cherie Bennett
(who wrote Life in the Fat Lane, A Heart Divided, etc.)
D.L Garfinkle
(who wrote Storky)
Daniel Ehrenhaft
(who wrote Ten Things to Do Before I Die, Tell it to Naomi and The After Life)
David Levithan
(who wrote Boy Meets Boy, Realm of Possibility and Are We There Yet?)
Ellen Wittlinger
(who wrote Hard Love, Heart on My Sleeve and many others)
Gordon Korman
(who wrote Son of The Mob, etc.)
Gregory Maguire
(who wrote Wicked, etc.)
Holly Black
(who wrote Tithe and Valiant)
J. Minter
(who wrote The Insiders)
Jacqueline Woodson
(who wrote From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun, I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, etc.)
Jennifer Anne Kogler
(who wrote Ruby Tuesday)
Jennifer Donnelly
(who wrote Northern Light and The Tea Rose)
John Green
(who wrote Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns, etc.)
Joseph Weisberg
(who wrote Tenth Grade)
Judy Blume
(who wrote Forever, Deenie, and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret)
Julie Anne Peters
(who wrote Luna, Far from Xanadu, etc.)
Justine Larbalestier
(who wrote Magic or Madness, Liar, How to Ditch Yr Fairy)
Katherine Paterson
(who wrote Bridge to Terebithia)
Katie Maxwell
(who wrote The Year My Life Went Down the Loo and much more)
KL Going
(who wrote Fat Kid Rules the World)
Kristen Kemp
(who wrote I Will Survive and The Dating Diaries, among others)
Lara M. Zeises
(who wrote Bringing Up the Bones, Anyone But You and Contents Under Pressure)
Laurie Halse Anderson
(who wrote Speak, Prom and Catalyst, among others)
Louise Rennison
(who wrote all those funny Georgia Nicolson books)
M.E. Kerr
(who wrote 'Hello', I Lied, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! etc.)
Mariah Fredericks
(who wrote The True Meaning of Cleavage)
Mary E. Pearson
(who wrote A Room on Lorelei Street, Adoration of Jenna Fox, etc.)
Mary Hogan
(who wrote The Serious Kiss)
Maryrose Wood
(who wrote Sex Kittens & Horn Dawgs, The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, etc.)
Maureen Johnson
(who wrote The Key to the Golden Firebird and 13 Little Blue Envelopes)
Meg Cabot
(who wrote The Princess Diaries)
Meg Rosoff
(who wrote How I Live Now, etc.)
Megan McCafferty
(who wrote Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings)
Melvin Burgess
(who wrote Smack, Doing It, Lady: My Life as a Bitch, and many others)
Mitali Perkins
(who wrote Monsoon Summer and Sunita Sen)
Nancy Werlin
(who wrote Double Helix, Black Mirror, and other teen thrillers)
Naomi Nash
(who wrote Chloe, Queen of Denial, You Are So Cursed, etc.)
Natalie Standiford
(who wrote The Dating Game, How to Say Goodbye in Robot, etc.)
Ned Vizzini
(who wrote Be More Chill and Teen Angst)
Pete Hautman
(who wrote Mr. Was, Sweetblood, Stone Cold, and many others.)
Rachel Cohn
(who wrote Gingerbread, Shrimp & Pop Princess)
Rosemary Graham
(who wrote My Not-So-Terrible Time at the Hippie Hotel and Thou Shalt Not Dump the Skater Dude)
Sarah Dessen
(who wrote That Summer, Someone Like You, etc.)
Sarah Mylnowski
(who wrote Bras & Broomsticks, How to Be Bad, Gimme a Call...)
Scott Westerfeld
(who wrote Pretties and Uglies, So Yesterday and Peeps)
Sonya Sones
(who wrote What My Mother Doesn't Know, and others)
Sue Limb
(who wrote Girl, 15, Charming but Insane, etc.)
Susan Juby
(who wrote Alice, I Think and other Alice MacLeod books)
Tanya Lee Stone
(who wrote A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl)
Tracy Lynn, also known as Celia Thompson
(who wrote Snow -- and as Thompson, the Nine Lives of Chloe King series)

Things I Wish I Knew in High School

If someone tells you that you are oversensitive, that person is probably a jerk.
Always use protection. Yes, you. Yes, always.
Boys who say, “I’m kind of messed up,” probably are.
If someone asks for your phone number and that person
creeps you out, it's okay to give the wrong number.
When you don't want to talk to someone, you don't
have to pick up the telephone.

About the Amazon Links

The thumbnail images of books and albums on this site connect you to Amazon.com -- but that's because Amazon and my web service provider have a partnership, so it's extremely easy to put images on my site.
However, I don't get any kind of kickback if you buy any of these items and I don't endorse any particular bookstore over any other.

I am so so pleased that The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks won a Cybils Award for best young adult novel! See the rest of the winners here.

Sadye's iMix

Click here for more Dramarama stuff -- including videos.
All the songs from Dramarama
are here, on an iMix. You click on the link above and iTunes will open straight to the mix. Listen before you read Dramarama to make sure you get every little musical reference. Listen afterwards to get a sense of Sadye and Demi's musical world. In any case, these are some of my favorite showtunes of all time. Songs from Rent, Wicked, Guys & Dolls, Cabaret, Chicago, Bye Bye Birdie, Oliver!, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Jersey Boys, Grease, Fame, Sweet Charity, Little Shop of Horrors, and more.