Here in the USA, you can purchase signed copies of my books at the following shops.  Nearly all of them will happily ship to you!   

xo  E

California Barnes & Nobles 
They have the B&N exclusive purple edition of Family of Liars, plus We Were Liars and in most cases, Genuine Fraud and maybe Again Again

BN San Bruno
BN San Mateo
BN Dublin
BN El Cerrito
BN Beryville
BN Marina del Rey
BN Grove
BN Studio City
BN Americana

California Indies
Look here for the regular blue Family of Liars, plus We Were Liars, Genuine Fraud and maybe Again Again.  Plus they might have Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero, and if noted below, they have my Emily Jenkins books signed as well. 

West Portal Bookshop
Keplers
Linden Tree Bookstore
Hicklebees (has lots of Emily Jenkins books)
Books Inc

New York City Indies

The Center for Fiction (Family of Liars only)
Greenlight Bookstore (all recent Lockhart books)
Community Bookstore (Family of Liars only)
Powerhouse on 8th (Family of Liars only)
McNally Jackson (Family of Liars only)
Books of Wonder (all recent Lockhart books including Whistle, plus Upside-Down Magic)
The Strand (all recent Lockhart books)

New York City Barnes and Nobles 
They have the B&N exclusive purple edition of Family of Liars, plus We Were Liars and in most cases, Genuine Fraud and maybe Again Again

BN Court Street
BN Park Slope
BN Union Sq
BN Tribeca

And in Connecticut:

RJ Julia

In the Barnes & Noble special edition of Family of Liars (the purple one) there is a MIX-TAPE. I hand-wrote the cassette cover with all the songs, and decorated it with stars -- just like we used to do in 1987, when the book is set. There are a lot of other extras in that edition, too! Recipes, maps, and more.

But I wanted all my readers to be able to access the songs Carrie is listening to on Beechwood Island, so here is the list on Spotify. And on Apple Music.

As you can see from the picture, artists include REM, U2, The Pretenders, The Bangles, Eurythmics, Howard Jones, Dream Academy...
Happy Summer 1987, all of you.

Gift with pre-order!  Yippee! 

Indie bookshops in the US are offering this charming lemon bag as a gift with pre-order purchase of Family of Liars!  (There is a big scene to do with lemons in the novel.)  Available as long as supplies last.  170 stores are participating, so your local bookstore probably is!  Stores are listed here: https://bit.ly/3LZzsu2

xoxo 

E

Family of Liars, my new book, is a prequel to We Were Liars.  It'll be in stores on May 3, 2022.  You can pre-order it anywhere books are sold, and Barnes & Noble has an exclusive purple edition with special extra content.  You can pre-order that, as well. 

I'm so psyched for you all to read this wild ride of a book.  Check back here for any tour dates -- and I'll see you in March at the North Texas Teen Book Festival!

xoE

P.S. Mostly, I'm cavorting online on Instagram @elockhartbooks and on Twitter @elockhart.  You can also find me on TikTok @elockhartbooks.   

Upside-Down Magic is a middle-grade series I co-write with Lauren Myracle and Sarah Mlynowski. Here is the trailer for the Disney Channel movie based on our books! It launches on the Channel July 31, 2020, and will be available on demand right after that.

Again Again is in stores now.  

In this novel full of surprises from the New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud, E. Lockhart ups the ante with an inventive and romantic story about human connection, forgiveness, self-discovery, and possibility.
 
“Her prose and storytelling ability are unparalleled in YA…. I want to read every story she decides to tell.” —BookPage

March 14, 2020

The LES Girls Club is stunning — a huge new facility that offers art and career training, after school classes, physical education, roof garden activities, science lab, college application help, social work, travel opportunities, and more for the girls and young women in the community over on Avenue D in New York City.

You, my friends, sent them well over 300 books for the literacy program in 2018. But it's 2020.  And most of those books went home with girls who didn't have very many of their own books to keep. 

As of March 13, 2020, the new group of girls in the literacy program (and in the club, generally) NEED BOOKS. NYC public libraries are closed at present.

I put together an Amazon wish list.  It's newly updated (March 2020) and includes requests from the girls and from the director of the program, recent bestsellers, titles from Marly Diaz's amazing list, books from the Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers lists, books from other reluctant reader lists, and more.   It's super easy to buy the girls a book. Or ten! The address is on the top of the list, and SHOULD fill in automatically when you buy books -- but if it doesn't, you can see it there. 

Thank you so much for helping create a book-rich environment for this community of amazing young women and the facility that cares so much about them. Click here to send books. 

xo

E

Hi! I invite you to come hang out on Instagram, where I'm spending more time nowadays.  I'm trying to make the party over there good fun.  It's there and on Twitter that I do giveaways, give sneak peeks of upcoming titles, and share all my news.  

The blog is still good for tour dates and stuff of that nature.

XO E

I'm traveling in the UK and Ireland! It's officially for the UK paperback of Genuine Fraud.  I'm talking with some great authors: Holly Bourne, Will Hill, SK Wright, Emily Barr.  I'll be at DeptCon and Killer Women -- and I'm teaching a workshop at the Southbank Centre on finding your voice as a writer. 

Come see me!  Tickets are free,, mostly, but you should get them ahead of time. 

xoE

Saturday 13th October, Deptcon4, In convo with Holly Bourne, Pavilion Theatre, Dublin

I'm on episode 80 of the podcast So Many Damn Books. It’s a great podcast;  I liked the Megan Abbot and Francine Prose episodes, especially.  Anyway, here’s a photo of the cocktail the hosts made for me, plus the novel we discussed.  

Listen here.  

Get Underlined made a fun quiz:  "Are you genuine? Or a fraud?" 

Here's the Genuine Fraud book trailer.  The book is in development with Jenni Konner and Lena Dunham for film, through their company A Casual Romance, in collaboration with Lionsgate Pictures.

Genuine Fraud is in stores, now.  Order it here. 
The We Were Liars paperback edition is also out --  and it  has all kinds of goodies in the back, including new love letters.

xoE

P.S.  

Bustle has a preview of Genuine Fraud  - -a fresh excerpt full of extortion and violence.   Book comes out Sept 5, 2017. 

It’s #VoterRegistrationDay in the US, and today the YA community partners with Rock the Vote to launch a week or more of #firstvote16 videos. Keep your eyes peeled. Big names coming up!

Please share the love and register to vote.

Make your own video about your first time! Just tag two friends, link to rtvote.com/firstvote16 and use #firstvote16. XOXOXO

To register to vote (it takes two minutes!) and to learn more about absentee voting, how to vote in your state and more, visit: http://www.rtvote.com/firstvote16.

love and political empowerment,

E

tagging: Printz-winner John Corey Whaley, Broadway radio host and YA novelist Seth Rudetsky and Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan YA novelists and the wits behind Go Fug Yourself.

Zoella Book Club!  She (Zoella) picked eight books and I have read a bunch of them and they all look great -- Rainbow Rowell! Nicola Yoon! Jennifer Niven!   And lots of others.   Plus I wrote one of them: We Were Liars. 

The club is sponsored by W.H. Smith, in the UK, but the exclusive content is available for everyone to see. The main club page is here -- with links to videos, playlists, interviews and exclusive outtakes, plus sample chapters of all the books. 

Here's my interview about We Were Liars. 

Here are the outtakes from the book (deleted scenes). 

Here's Zoella chatting about the book, plus a schedule of events related to We Were Liars (and a vote in Sept).

There will be more content rolling out soon, and click here to find it.

And here's the video where she talks about all the books -- great if you're trying to decide what to read this summmer.

We Were Liars and lots more, in Zoella's book club.

This picture makes me smile. As an author, I get a ton  of free YA and MG books -- and I buy a ton, too.  My writer friends are overstocked as well, so we give them to the Lower East Side Girls Club, which is an incredible, amazing organization. 

Here I am with some of the younger Girls Club members on the day of delivery. Those boxes are less than half of what I was able to collect from Libba Bray and Barry Goldblatt, Alex London, Daniel Ehrenhaft and Soho Teen, David Levithan, Robin Wasserman and Gayle Forman. 

If you're invested in creating opportunities lives of girls and young women, check out and donate to the LES Girls Club. They offer after-school classes in science, dance and yoga, sewing and fabric arts, visual arts, entrepreneurial projects, cooking, and a ton more. They have free books to take home in the lobby. They have a planetarium! And a green roof!  Plus a counselor, college application help and more. 

My website has been totally redesigned by the excellent Conrad Wells. I love it so much. 

Had a really interesting panel conversation at the Tucson Book Festival with Andrew Smith (whose new book is The Alex Crow) and Jo Knowles (whose new book is Read Between the Lines). We talked about non-linear structures in fiction -- and other stuff.  Here we are!  

In unrelated news, I was recently at the FYE (First Year Experience) Conference, where authors and college professors come together to talk about books that might be food for "One Book One School" or "One Book One City" type reads for Freshman. 

I had an amazing time and talked to lots of smart educators. I also got to hear presentations by Okey Ndibe (Foreign Gods, Inc.) , Anthony Marra (A Constellation of Vital Phenomenae) , Max Brooks (Harlem Hellfighters), and Bryan Stevenson (Just Mercy). Here's my talk about We Were Liars and the ways it might be useful for college freshmen as a group read, especially for incoming students who might be reluctant readers, yet.  

It runs about 13 minutes. I tell some stories. 

Cheery end of the year stuff is happening with We Were Liars. Your local independent bookshop will probably have nice gift-y looking copies with bands around the center that makes them look special, and Hudson Booksellers (in all the airports) will have the book on display for quick and easy gifts or airplane reading.  And Amazon says its their #1 YA book for the year, and the only YA book in their top 20. 

So I would be feeling pretty awesome if I weren't trying to finish the next book, which is  a BLOODY MESS right now. But still, I do feel awesome. 

The most fun awesomeness for you as a reader is that We Were Liars is up for the  GoodReads Choice Award -- which you can VOTE FOR.  It's in the YA Fiction category and we're down to the finals, now. You can very easily vote in all categories and it is quite fun to do. I voted in fiction and cookbooks. Anyway, WWL is in very good company so when you see the list of books in the top ten, you may vote for something else instead! But I hope you will go vote, because there's no doubt you'll find about about some good new books while you're doing it. 

This is from my British publisher. I AM COMING TO LONDON! AND DUBLIN! AND LIVERPOOL! Please come out and see me. I love meeting readers. 

P.S. At the bottom of the post you can see the UK jacket for The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, which has never been available there until now. 

xoE 

Hotkey Books writes:

We’re delighted to say we’ll be hosting E in the first week of December – Christmas presents for everyone you know, SORTED = signed copies of WE WERE LIARS! She’ll also be talking about the brilliant title THE DISREPUTABLE HISTORY OF FRANKIE LANDAU BANKS which we published just last week. Although very different to WE WERE LIARS it’s completely dazzling in it’s own way, so why not prepare for her visit by having a read before she gets here?

So finally, if you want to catch E Lockhart whilst she’s in the UK here are her public dates -

*Newly added*

Monday 1st December

After school drop in meet and greet (informal) Waterstones Cheltenham – 4:30pm – link to come but contact Waterstones for more info!

Tuesday 2nd December 

Waterstones Piccadilly, London – chaired by Anna James from We Love This Book and The Bookseller 

Wednesday 3rd December

Waterstones Liverpool ONE

Thursday 4th December

Easons O’Connell St, Dublin

Admission can be booked via Easons on 01-8583815

Friday 5th December

Waterstones Birmingham High St

We hope we’ll see you there!

It is an exciting day in Lockhart land. I am interviewed on one of my fave podcasts, Sara Zarr's This Creative Life. Zarr wrote Roomies (with Tara Altebrando) and The Lucy Variations and lots of other awesome books, and the podcast interviews all kinds of writers about the intersection of life and work, the creative process, etc. 

Click here to listen and to learn more about Zarr and the podcast. 

Also, over at the National Book Award, the long list for young people's lit was announced today!  I was on the judging committee for Young People's Literature last year, so I really understand the process and feel nostalgic about the whole thing -- 289 books, arriving in boxes over the summer. My idea of fun.  Our winner last year was Cynthia Kadohata's The Thing About Luck, which is a really wonderful story and everyone should read it. 

This year's long list includes some books I've loved (Threatened by Eliot Schrefer and Noggin by John Corey Whaley)  and some others I'm psyched to discover.  If you're looking for quality YA and MG to read, you really should check out the "Up all Night" online exhibition of previous YPL finalists and winners.  Happy reading. XXOE