E. Lockhart's Blog: Internet break, and What Gifts to Give Your Boyfriend this Holiday Season

YA Authors on the Web

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.

Sara Zarr (author of Once Was Lost! Kirkus best books of year list!) convinced me I need to take a break from internetty type activities. For like, all of December. Starting tomorrow. I am doing it! Which means: no (or minimal) twitter, facebook, myspace, blogging, browsing, reading Go Fug Yourself and other such nonsensical entertainments. Minimal email, minimal online this and that. Allowed: only necessary emailing and holiday shopping.

I have a blog tour coming up which will REVEAL THE NEW COVER ART FOR THE RUBY OLIVER SERIES -- so I actually will be blogging about where you can find those interviews. But I will not be social networking, tweeting nor reading twitter -- though today I saw Neil Gaiman's girlfriend in a bra! and learned the name of Maureen Johnson's new band. I mean, Twitter is a HOTBED of excitement these days and will be very hard to give up.

So that starts tomorrow. But it wouldn't be the holiday season if I didn't tell you what to buy your BOYFRIEND. For older ideas, click on last year's post. (Or, the year before's.)

The reason I tell you what to buy your boyfriend has to do with "presents for boyfriend" being one of the major search terms that leads people to my blog and my website, thanks to The Boyfriend List excerpt about Roo and Jackson and their bad present-giving history.

So, without further ado:

WHAT TO GIVE YOUR BOYFRIEND
this Christmas, Hannukah, whatever you celebrate --
assuming your young man is, say under 25.

1. Leviathan, by Scott Westerfeld. Steam-punk crazy adventure awesomeness. No guy can resist it.

2. Vintage rotary phone of extreme adorableness (though pricey).

3. A print by Jules Feiffer. (also not cheap. but the man is a genius.)

4. Vintage candy bars. (still good to eat)

5. Good looking pocket knife, good price.

6. Bacon bandages. Just like Roo gives to Noel in The Treasure Map of Boys! The very same ones from the very same store.

7. Porcelain travel thermos: good for the environment, cute and affordable. From one of the best gift stores in NYC.

8. A manly manly scarf.

9.Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd. I don't think I really need say more.

Happy holidays! See you in January.

xo E

Comments

Hello.
This probably isn't the place to ask questions, but I'm not as tech-savvy as I'd like to be and can't seem to find where else to put it...

Is there an address (email or snail mail) where you receive fan mail? I just finished "The Disreputable History..." and feel the need to gush about it's 1,000 levels of awesome. I'd beg for a sequel, if I thought it would do any good. But I read that it was terribly difficult to write so I know not to hold my breath. ;)
-Jennifer

Posted by: Jenn | January 20, 2010 at 10:53 PM

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