Reminder: The Readergirlz celebration chatstravaganza is up and running. Come chat with your favorite authors.

John Green. Deb Caletti. Ann Brashares. Chris Crutcher. Mitali Perkins. And more more more. Really, such a cool thing.

I'll be chatting on October 24th at the readergirlz group forum about Dramarama, The Boyfriend List, How to Be Bad, Disreputable History, whatever else! Ask me, and I'll answer.

8:30 PM eastern, 5:30 pacific for ME, 8 pm for everyone else
(I had a little scheduling conflict)

It's all on MySpace. Just friend ReaderGirlz and their group forum (you have to do both!) -- and then every SINGLE NIGHT IN OCTOBER, you can chat with a different teen author. It's a celebration of
YALSA's Teen Read Week.

Here are the dates coming up, and the amazing list of writers:

October 7. Ellen Hopkins
8.Justina Chen Headley
9. Chris Crutcher
10. Ann Brashares
11. Sarah Mlynowski
12.Cecil Castellucci
13.Kirby Larson
14.Tanya Lee Stone
15. John Green
16. Sara Zarr
17. Deb Caletti
18. Rachel Cohn
19. Kirsten Miller
20. Mitali Perkins

Now, it's not SUPER obvious what to do, so this is it:
Go to readergirlz group on myspace, once YOU are signed in to myspace. (remember, make sure you have followed the instructions above re: friending and joining readergirlz).

At the readergirlz group site, scroll past the Welcome and Member faces down to the forum.
Find the thread for or the date and name of whatever other author you are checking out) and double-click it.
At 5:00 PDT / 8:00 EDT, the chat starts. You can post questions and the writer will answer them. To see the answers, return to the forum and refresh.