Well, I email this person 12 times a day because we have a book coming out, but only now did I find out:
Lauren Myracle has a blog!

Extremely fun reading. Learn what to do if your thigh-highs fall down!

Edited to add: oh, and it's on livejournal, too, so you can friend her.

AND

Click HERE to vote for your favorite of our How to Be Bad author photos. Although we are very vain and may not take your advice. We'd still like to know what you think! Is it ridiculous when I am laughing like a maniac, or charming? Is Sarah's hair too big sometimes, or always just fabulous and you wish you had it?

AND

Our photographer was Heather Weston, who also took my usual author photo and has a very cool website. As Lauren says, the photographer was hot. And Heather IS hot, but that is not really what we were responding to. It was her assistant, Phil, who kept calling Lauren "Hotlanta!" and blatantly used his hotness to make us try to look good, or in my case, to make me laugh.

I just (finally!) read Valiant by Holly Black.

I love a YA book which does not in the slightest bend itself to the crazy demands of censors but just puts itself OUT THERE. I mean, some really major stuff goes on in Valiant*, but it is all integral to the complex world Black is building, a New York City full of faerie folk who are queer and highly varied and dangerous and beautiful -- and the messed-up humans who serve them.

It's about becoming a hero -- finding the hero in yourself even when you are at your lowest ebb and faced with forces that seem infinitely stronger than you.

I also love that the romantic hero is a TROLL.

*sex, drugs, homelessness, kitten murder, dead mermaids, really really bad parental behavior, vandalism, theft, hearts and eyeballs yanked from living bodies -- and also some amazingly raw and true FEELINGS plus girl HEROISM with sword-fighting!

I am thankful for many things, but NOT THIS.

Richie Partington, a wonderful and influential librarian and YA books advocate, was fired from his job for refusing to meet with the District Superintendent of his school until the principal actually read the book that was being banned -- which was The Last Book in the Universe.

Full story at Carrie Jones's site.

You can preview The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, here.

Fly on the Wall, the British cover! Comes out in the UK in May, 2008.

Reminder: If you're going to the NCTE conference please come see me!

FRIDAY the 16th
Panel 9:30 -10:45 "Adolescent Literacy at the Crossroads: Redefining Sex and Sexuality in YA Fiction"
me, Laurie Halse-Anderson, Lara Zeises, Laura Ruby, Tanya Lee Stone, and Brent Hartinger -- moderated by Teri Lesesne.

1-2pm Autographing Random House booth #529
The Boyfriend List, The Boy Book, Fly on the Wall

4-5PM Autographing at Scholastic Booth#510
Together with a whole BEVY of other YA authors, signing 21 Proms
Holly Black • Libba Bray • Rachel Cohn • Daniel Ehrenhaft • Aimee Friedman • E. Lockhart
David Levithan • Leslie Margolis • Sarah Mlynowski • Lisa Sandell • Adrienne Vrettos

SATURDAY, the 17th

10:00-11:00AM Autograph in HarperCollins Booth #571
With Lauren Myracle and Sarah Mlynowski -- first ever signing of How to Be Bad

11AM-noon Autographing at Hyperion Booth #243
Dramarama and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

I'll be at the ALAN cocktail thingee on Sunday evening, too. Please come say hello!

Reading Rants was always awesome but now it's new and SHINY SHINY SHINY, redesigned with interactivity. Also hot new booklists.
Dramarama even made its first ever GLBT booklist, which I'm very pleased to see
(as it generally flies under the radar as a GLBT-interest title) --
and the whole list is awesome, with lots of new titles and things I didn't know about.

She's got lists of things like tearjerkers, vampire fiction, weight and eating disorder novels, and so on.

For those of you going to NCTE this coming weekend:

Ooh, I just found out that the 21 Proms signing on Friday the 16th
will involve balloons, punch & cookies, and music -- a PROM ATMOSPHERE WITH SNACKS. Plus, eleven YA authors, all in one place.

Holly Black • Libba Bray • Rachel Cohn • Daniel Ehrenhaft • Aimee Friedman • E. Lockhart
David Levithan • Leslie Margolis • Sarah Mlynowski • Lisa Sandell • Adrienne Vrettos

4-5PM Autographing at Scholastic Booth#510

(my complete appearance schedule here)

Novelist Maggie Marr (Hollywood Girls Club) posts ten EASY PEASY changes we can make in our lives to help the environment.

I still need to do number 9 and number 7. And I could be better about number 6. But the others I have done. You should, too. Most are so easy you won't even notice them.

Spread the word!

If you're going to the NCTE conference in New York weekend of the 16th, 17th, 18th, please come see me! I am all over that thing.

FRIDAY the 16th
Panel 9:30 -10:45 "Adolescent Literacy at the Crossroads: Redefining Sex and Sexuality in YA Fiction"
me, Laurie Halse-Anderson, Lara Zeises, Laura Ruby, Tanya Lee Stone, and Brent Hartinger -- moderated by Teri Lesesne.

1-2pm Autographing Random House booth #529
The Boyfriend List, The Boy Book, Fly on the Wall

4-5PM Autographing at Scholastic Booth#510
Together with a whole BEVY of other YA authors, signing 21 Proms
Holly Black • Libba Bray • Rachel Cohn • Daniel Ehrenhaft • Aimee Friedman • E. Lockhart
David Levithan • Leslie Margolis • Sarah Mlynowski • Lisa Sandell • Adrienne Vrettos

SATURDAY, the 17th

10:00-11:00AM Autograph in HarperCollins Booth #571
With Lauren Myracle and Sarah Mlynowski -- first ever signing of How to Be Bad

11AM-noon Autographing at Hyperion Booth #243
Dramarama and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

I'll be at the ALAN cocktail thingee on Sunday evening, too. Please come say hello!