E. Lockhart's Blog: The Note in the Book

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.

Here, at Found Magazine, is an interesting note that was found inside a copy of my book, Dramarama. Read the comments. No one knows what it says or what it means!

In other news, my website has been infected with horrible MALWARE for like six months which means that you can easily visit it by clicking on a link to it, but if you search any search engine you get an ad for viagra instead of my site. Ag. And more Ag.

This is apparently not a fixable thing and my site will be moving soon to a non-viagra environment. But all that got delayed, including the site update for my SPANKIN' NEW PAPERBACKS of all three Ruby books -- and that means that I have nowhere but my blog to give you the scoop. Soon I will be able to post preview chapters of Roo4, aka Real Live Boyfriends, which comes out in December.

Also: I'm having a contest! Details up in the next couple days -- but it will be easy to enter, there will be lots of winners, and it will help spread the word about the new paperbacks. So check back and enter to win a signed hardcover of Dramarama!

xo
E

Comments

omg! i googled your blog, to see if you had any info on your site about a new ruby oliver book, and omg yay you ARE writing another one! I'm so excited! I'm currently almost done with 'the treasure map of boys'! please continue writing!! you are really great at it!

Posted by: makena | July 22, 2010 at 12:20 AM

Did you really, really have to change the covers before the release of the fourth book? I'm aware that these things aren't always in your hands, but it really bugs me that I'm not going to be able to have a matching set of covers - I can't see what the harm would have been in releasing the fourth book with a cover on the same theme as the first four, THEN releasing all the books with the new covers (which are kind of utterly hideous, but that's just my own opinion)

I guess I'm just disappointed because I loved the old covers so much.

Posted by: Suzanne | July 22, 2010 at 02:05 PM

I agree with Suzanne, I loved the old covers a lot....but I'm pretty sure the covers are out of the authors hand.

Posted by: makena | July 22, 2010 at 03:35 PM

Authors have zero say, Suzanne!

Posted by: E. Lockhart | July 22, 2010 at 08:06 PM

Fair does, just wondered like :P just seemed like an odd decision, even coming from the publisher!

Posted by: Suzanne | July 23, 2010 at 02:47 PM

I know their your books, E. But which do you prefer? I love the old covers their so darn cute! I hate to admit it but I judge books by cover and that little cute frog is what made me start reading your books! Anyways keep doing wonders, I love your books!

Posted by: Cristina | July 26, 2010 at 08:32 PM

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