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Alex Sanchez
(who wrote Rainbow Boys, etc.)
Amy Kaye
(who wrote The Real Deal)
Andrew Auseon
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Bennett Madison
(who wrote Lulu Dark and The Blonde of the Joke)
Brent Hartinger
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Carolyn Mackler
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Cat Bauer
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Cathy Hopkins
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Cecily Von Ziegesar
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Cherie Bennett
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D.L Garfinkle
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Daniel Ehrenhaft
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David Levithan
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Ellen Wittlinger
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Gordon Korman
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Gregory Maguire
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Holly Black
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J. Minter
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Jacqueline Woodson
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Jennifer Anne Kogler
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Jennifer Donnelly
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John Green
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Joseph Weisberg
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Judy Blume
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Julie Anne Peters
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Justine Larbalestier
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Katherine Paterson
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Katie Maxwell
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KL Going
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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
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Maureen Johnson
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Meg Cabot
(who wrote The Princess Diaries)
Meg Rosoff
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Megan McCafferty
(who wrote Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings)
Melvin Burgess
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Mitali Perkins
(who wrote Monsoon Summer and Sunita Sen)
Nancy Werlin
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Naomi Nash
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Natalie Standiford
(who wrote The Dating Game, How to Say Goodbye in Robot, etc.)
Ned Vizzini
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Pete Hautman
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Rachel Cohn
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Rosemary Graham
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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
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Sonya Sones
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Sue Limb
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Susan Juby
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Tanya Lee Stone
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Tracy Lynn, also known as Celia Thompson
(who wrote Snow -- and as Thompson, the Nine Lives of Chloe King series)

Books I Loved Madly at Age Fourteen

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.

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Help me out

Help me out again!

Two more film lists for Roo4: Movies where the safe responsible boyfriend or husband turns out to be a closet jerk, thus transforming himself into the rotten boyfriend -- thus freeing the heroine to leave him for someone more exciting, guilt-free: Desperately Seeking Susan; The Wedding Singer; Moonstruck...

WHAT ELSE?

I know there are a million things I am forgetting.

And: Movies where a brooding, even sulky guy seems like really quite a good idea for a boyfriend: Twilight, Ten Things I Hate About You, Dirty Dancing, Sommersby, Edward Scissorhands, The Bourne Identity, Grosse Pointe Blank... (is Sommersby right? Maybe he is not brooding. Maybe he is handsome and jolly and just an IMPOSTER.) I use Box Office Mojo's genre lists to help me remember movies.But the mojo isn't working that well today. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/

May 14, 2009 in Help Me Out | Permalink

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Closet Jerk: Bring It On, The Apartment, Bridget Jones's Diary, French Kiss, It Happened One Night...

Posted by: ropo | May 14, 2009 at 11:15 AM

Stomp the Yard, Some Kind of Wonderful

Posted by: Mercedes | May 14, 2009 at 11:31 AM

Addicted to Love for the brooding guy.

Posted by: Melissa Walker | May 14, 2009 at 12:25 PM

Sliding Doors?

Posted by: Megan Crewe | May 14, 2009 at 01:43 PM

The first one, where the guy is a closet jerk(He's Just Not That Into You), and the second, where the guy is brooding, there's that weird movie Angel Eyes with Jennifer Lopez and that one brooding guy.

By the way, Borders.com says The Treasure Map of Boys comes out the 28th?!?

Posted by: Devin Gregory | May 14, 2009 at 04:29 PM

Closet jerk: Little Children? I don't think Sarah's husband was ever a prize, but what he did made her affair a LOT more justified.

Posted by: tess | May 14, 2009 at 06:55 PM

Awesome!! thank you so much you guys.
More more more more!
Addicted to Love: was Matthew Broderick brooding? really? I saw that but don't recall it that way.

re: the Borders date. That's not what they tell ME! But honestly, sometimes the author is the last to know this kind of thing.

Posted by: E. Lockhart | May 14, 2009 at 09:51 PM

Normal guy = jerk

Almost Famous (Russell...only slightly), Elizabeth (Leicester), Beautiful Girls (Matt Dillons character), Thelma & Louise (Jimmy?), Stealing Beauty (Niccolo), The Way We Were (sob), The Godfather (OK, OK, how much did Kay ACTUALLY know Michael...and Michael's not allllllways a jerk), St Elmo's Fire (Judd Nelson's character)

brooding sulky guy = good boyfriend

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Alec, urgh), A Room With A View (Cecil), Good Will Hunting (Will), The Piano (Baines), Chungking Express (Tony Leung's character), Rebecca (Maxim de Winter = A grade sexy sulk), James Dean ANYTHING, Pride & Prejudice/Bridget Jones, On The Waterfront, High Fidelity???

Posted by: ampersand355 | May 15, 2009 at 01:07 PM

Room With A View was supposed to be normal/pompous guy = jerk...my bad again

Posted by: ampersand355 | May 15, 2009 at 01:12 PM

Closet Jerk = Bride Wars

Posted by: Ashley | May 15, 2009 at 01:17 PM

Brooding guy=A Walk to Remember

Posted by: Megan | May 15, 2009 at 05:23 PM

Um, what about Titanic for the closet jerk? And sometimes I think spider man is a little broody.

Posted by: Meghan | May 16, 2009 at 08:01 PM

How about the boyfriend of Claire Cleary in the Wedding Crashers? His character's name was Zachary 'Sack' Lodge. He was a jerk, but was the ... "perfect" man because he was in good with her father and business.

Posted by: Sam | May 17, 2009 at 11:16 AM

Do the brooding types have to end up good guys? If not how about Heathers, Reality Bites, Little Women (ok the last one is a stretch). Hmm...what is it about Wynona Ryder and bad boys?

Posted by: Lindsay Klick | May 18, 2009 at 02:18 AM

Brooding: Wuthering Heights!

Posted by: Miranda | May 18, 2009 at 06:05 PM

Sulky guy good boyfriend: Speed, a walk to remember, saved. Or any keanu reaves film.

closet jerk: ?

Posted by: Anna | May 20, 2009 at 05:54 AM

The Tracey Fragments is pretty good but its also pretty alternative.
Tracey spends the whole movie fantasizing about Billy Zero and their relationship. At the end it shows the two of them together, something that seems beautiful... until he pushes her out of the car, in her underwear, and drives away.

Posted by: amber | May 24, 2009 at 09:37 PM

Hey, E.!
I know this isn't related to the blog/movie topic, but I've been thinking about your books lately. I was thinking how awesome Dramarama would be as a movie: singing, dancing, acting, kissing galore! I am a huuuge musical theater "geek" and a huuuuge fan of you so Dramarama was amazing to read and imagine in my head. Disreputable History would also be really awesome as a movie too. AND the Roo books, most definitely.
As you mentioned before though, Fly on the Wall would be...difficult to translate to screen without being NC-17. =P
A quick ques., if you could have a dream cast for any book, who would you cast?
Oh yeah, congrats on (almost?) finishing Roo4! Party it up. Haha.

Posted by: Kristin | May 25, 2009 at 02:25 AM

This has nothing to do with your book research, but I just learned Kiehl's is CONSIDERING offerring Chinese Flowers again, and I see on the internet you love it too. I urge you to call them at 800-543-4572 and tell them of your interest. I MUST have more and assume you feel the same way!

Posted by: camille waters | May 27, 2009 at 04:18 PM

Hey!
Good Luck on Roo4 it's (almost?) done!

Brooding guys: Music and Lyrics. Penelope? Anything with James McAvory really?

Posted by: Denise | May 31, 2009 at 02:41 AM

Hi E!

Great seeing you at BEA on Friday. Seeimgly sweet boyfriend is actually a closet jerk - In Her Shoes! I know Cameron Diaz played Toni Collette's sister, but come on! Richard Burgi's character had no morals. Plus, this works in Roo having Jennifer Weiner knowledge, which would only serve to make her cooler, of course.

-Jessica S.

Posted by: Jessica S. | May 31, 2009 at 02:30 PM

I have just read Treasure Map and am afraid that this is somehow relating to Noel....please tell me that I am WRONG!!!!

Posted by: ampersand355 | August 12, 2009 at 10:48 AM

Closet Jerk: That Thing You Do, Sisteract(in the very begining), Nick and Norah's infinite Playlist, Legally Blonde
*also hoping the Jerk isn't Noel

Posted by: red | September 05, 2009 at 02:51 PM

closet jerk: can't buy me love
Grease
spider man
star wars
A Streetcar Named Desire

Brood, sulky guys:
becoming jane
tristan & isolde
say anything
Wall-E
cold mountain

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True and Embarassing Things about E.

I had a frizzy perm for several years.
I was voted worst driver in my senior class.
I wore light blue eyeshadow in high school.
Like Roo, I once let a boy feel my boob in a movie theater for the duration of an entire movie.
The movie was "Tarzan: The Legend of Greystoke."
I went to two different high schools; at one I was unpopular and
friendless; at the other, just the opposite.
I have two cats and one of them is a big barfer.
Orthodonture history includes three years of braces,
headgear, rubber bands. And I've still got an overbite.
My first kiss was at the age of sixteen.
The first record I bought was a 45 of AC/DC
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Teen Writers Who Blog

Alan Gratz
Gratz wrote Samurai Shortstop, The Brooklyn Nine, Something Wicked. He has a video blog!
Ally Carter
Author of the Gallagher Series. A very fun blog.
Bennett Madison
Madison wrote Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls and I promise you his blog is very very amusing.
Holly Black
Black wrote Tithe and the Spiderwick Chronicles. She updates her journal pretty regularly.
Jaclyn Moriarty
Moriarty wrote Feeling Sorry for Celia, The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie, The Spell Book of Listen Taylor and The Year of Secret Assignments.
Jennifer Anne Kogler
Ruby Tuesday's author, on what she ate for breakfast and writing updates.
Jody Gehrman
She wrote Confessions of a Triple-shot Betty.
John Green
Green wrote Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns etc. and blogs about his life and updates with questionable regularity and considerable humor. Also an extensive videoblog together with his brother Hank -- worth checking out.
Julie Anne Peters
The author of Luna and other books blogs every few days about current events and her life.
Justine Larbalastier
Justine wrote Magic or Madness and How to Ditch Your Fairy. Her blog's about publishing and Australia and fiction and fantasy.
Lara M. Zeises
The author of Contents Under Pressure and Bringing Up the Bones has a live journal, updated all the time, mainly about YA literature and the publishing biz.
Lauren Myracle
Myracle wrote TTYL, TTFN etc, plus Bliss, Rhymes with Witches... blog is very funny and she is one of the most banned writers in America.
Laurie Halse Anderson
She wrote Prom and Speak, among others. Her blog includes tour pictures and stuff about her personal life. Updated nearly every day.
Libba Bray
Bray wrote Rebel Angels and A Great and Terrible Beauty. She writes every now and then about her writing process and daily life.
Mary E. Pearson
Pearson wrote A Room on Lorelei Street, Scribbler of Dreams and David V. God. The blog covers teen books and publishing.
Maureen Johnson
Johnson wrote Suite Scarlett, Devilish, Girl at Sea, etc. A most hilarious blog.
Megan McCafferty
McCafferty wrote Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings etc. She has a "retroblog" of journal entries from long ago.
Mitali Perkins
Perkins, who wrote Monsoon Summer etc., talks about books and life between cultures.
Sarah Dessen
The author of That Summer, Someone Like You, Dreamland, etc. keeps a constantly updated web journal with a huge following.
Sarah Mlynowski
Bras & Broomsticks author updates every now and then with photos, publishing news and other fun stuff.
Scott Westerfeld
The man wrote Peeps, Midnighters, Pretties, and other stuff. His blog gets a million comments and it's always thought-provoking.
Suzanne Young
Author of The Naughty List and So Many Boys.
Tanya Lee Stone
Stone wrote A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl and lots of other books, too.
Tracy Lynn, also known as Celia Thompson
Lynn (author of Snow), aka Thompson (author of the Chloe King series), aka Liz Braswell, blogs about gaming, her family, the writing process, and more.
Zoe Trope
The author of Please Don't Kill The Freshman puts up pictures of her laundry and details her doctor's visits. Not for the faint of heart.