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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.

This makes me so happy (see below): the German cover of Die unrumliche Geschichte der Frankie Landau-Banks, AKA The Disreputable History. I love it so so much!!

I wonder if any one will buy it. I don't think an American publishing house would do such a cover, though I can't quite articulate why. Discuss amongst yourselves, if you are inclined.

In other news, I just finished two hours of chat with YA book maven Joan Kaywell's class of super-intelligent students. We focused on Dramarama, which is the book of mine dearest to my heart, so it was really fantastic to hear all the thoughtful things they had to say and ask about it.

Am sad to be missing ALA. The parties! The fangirling! The librarians! But most of all I am sorry to miss Libba Bray's Printz speech, as she is my dear friend and I am also a huge admirer of her writing and I am so glad she won for GOING BOVINE!

Sorry I've been a negligent blogger. Please come follow me on twitter if you crave more every day type updates. The NEW RUBY COVERS launch next month, which means paperbacks of the first three books should hit all yr local bookshops and you should immediately go out and read them all in preparation for Real Live Boyfriends, which comes out Dec. 28.

Okay, enough self-promo. I am trying to figure out what my next book is, and today I listened to Ellen Raskin's lecture on writing The Westing Game, complete with slides of manuscript pages and notes. It's pretty amazing. I recommend it. xxxoE

Comments

I just finished Going Bovine. I loved it. I'm going to buy a copy for my friend's birthday! Yay! Congrats go out to Libba.

Posted by: Sam M. | June 22, 2010 at 09:59 PM

Oh my god, I love that cover. I wish it were the American one too.

Posted by: Meghan | June 22, 2010 at 11:15 PM

I think the cover is awesome! And such a good indicator of the book (if not some of the themes then at least how much fun it is). Good luck with the new idea.

Posted by: Sherry | June 22, 2010 at 11:22 PM

Awesome cover!

Posted by: Aquene | June 23, 2010 at 01:48 AM

haha the cover is so cool i cant wait till real live boyfriends comes out its driving me crazy!

Posted by: natasha | June 26, 2010 at 01:25 PM

fantastic cover!

Posted by: simmone | June 29, 2010 at 03:51 PM

That cover is terrifyingly funny. I speak, however, as an adult. I'm not sure my 14-year-old daughters would get it. One of them would be freaked by the shiney pinkness of the bra and the other would be upset by the nasty old man. I think that the people most likely to "get" that cover would be feminist college students (and hooray for them).

Posted by: elizajane | July 02, 2010 at 08:05 PM

Oh--but I should say that German teens are probably less squeamish about shiney pink bras.

Posted by: elizajane | July 02, 2010 at 08:06 PM

I not only love this cover, I want a poster of it in my room! Awesome. Missed you, too, sugar. xoxo

Posted by: libba | July 06, 2010 at 06:47 PM

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