This May I’ll be on tour with Lauren Myracle and Sarah Mlynowski for release of our book, How to Be Bad. I’ll also be signing The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks at all events, plus you’ll be able to get hot-off-the-presses paperbacks of Dramarama and The Boy Book. Also cold-off-the-presses copies of my others.
Lauren and Sarah will sign their other books too.

This is the UPDATED tour schedule. Please come out and see us!
Librarians and teachers, bring your kids!

GEORGIA

May 5th and 6th, 2008
IRA in Atlanta (Lockhart only). Speaking Tuesday morning the 6th , 9:00 am: “A Genre to Engage Every Young Adult Reader” — Coert Voorhees, Gail Giles, E. Lockhart and Jerry Spinelli. Signings and social events the 5th and 6th.

May 6, 2008
7:00 pm Barnes & Noble 2900 Peachtree Rd NE Atlanta, GA 404-261-7747

FLORIDA

May 7, 2008
4:00 pm The Bookmark 299 Atlantic Blvd Atlantic Beach, FL 32233 904-241-9026

May 8, 2008
2:00 pm Goerings Book Store 1717 NW First Avenue, Gainesville, FL 32603
352-377-3703

May 8, 2008
7:00pm Borders 8285 Red Bug Lake Road Oviedo, FL 32765 407-977-3385

May 9, 2008
7:00 pm Store Event/Teen Band Night Books & Books 265 Aragon Ave Coral Gables, FL 33134 305-442-4408

May 10
2:00 pm Barnes and Noble Plantation, FL

ILLINOIS

May 12, 2008
7:00 pm Anderson’s Bookshops 123 W Jefferson Ave Naperville, IL 60540 630-355-2665

May 13, 2008
7:00pm Barnes & Noble 55 Old Orchard Center Skokie, IL 60077 847-676-2230

COLORADO

May 14th, 2008
7:00 pm Tattered Cover bookstore 9315 Dorchester St Littleton, CO 80129
(303) 470-7050 NOTE: This event is Myracle and Mlynoswki only, no Lockhart.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

May 19, 2008
7:00 pm B&N Thousand Oaks 160 S. Westlake Blvd. Thousand Oaks, CA 91362 (805) 446-2820

May 20, 2008
6:30pm Vroman’s Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd Pasadena, CA 91101 626-449-5320

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

May 21, 2008
7:00 pm Not Your Mother’s Book Club Books Inc. in Opera Plaza 601 Van Ness
San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 776-1111

May 22, 2008
3:00pm Hicklebee’s Childrens Books 1378 Lincoln Ave San Jose, CA 95125 408-292-8880

May 22, 2008
7:30pm Copperfields Books 140 Kentucky St Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 762-0563

CONNECTICUT

May 29, 2008
4:00 pm Borders 1499 Post Rd Fairfield, CT 06824 203-256-1619

May 30, 2008
7:00 pm Outback Teen Center, hosted by Elm Street Books, 71 Main St. New Canaan, CT 06840 (203) 966-4545

NEW YORK

May 31, 2008
2:00 pm Barnes & Noble Country Glen Center 91 Old Country Road Carle Place, NY 11514 516-741-9850

June 1, 2008
1:00 pm Books of Wonder 18 West 18th St. New York, NY 10011 (212) 989-3270

What names do you call your sister?
A) Adopted
B) The lesser loved child
C) Wicked Witch of the West
D) Sister? What Sister? I pretend she doesn’t exist ever since she stole my prom date.

Take the What Kind of Sister Are You? quiz on Facebook.

Names My Sisters Call Me is the new book by Megan Crane, author of Frenemies and frequent visitor to this blog. Go here to read our 2006 mutual Beatrice interview which confusingly starts with the conclusion but which is interesting anyway because we went to the same college at different times and went to grad school in the same subject and ended up with very similar careers. And go here to my blog from long ago to read her boyfriend list!

Names My Sisters Call me (buy it here) is a "beach read" about a newly engaged woman who tries to use her engagement party as a way to reconcile her estranged sisters. After all, they're all grown-ups now, right? But it turns out that family ghosts aren't easily vanquished, and neither are first loves. Reconnecting the sisters also means reexamining every choice Courtney has made in the past six years, right down to the man she's about to marry.

Here, she submits to my Disreputable History-based questions, in which she reveals the secret to walking in extremely high heels:

1. Tell me the sneakiest thing you ever did.
I went to summer camp for years, which honed my sneaky skills. I was a master of getting in and out of the cabin in the dark of night, and while I was not the ringleader of rule-breaking missions to raid the camp kitchen (that would be my infinitely more sneaky friend Holly), I definitely held my own.

2. Tell me the sneakiest thing that happens in your new book.
Courtney, the main character, tells her fiance a lie to sneak off and see her ex-boyfriend sing in a club.

3. Are you a prankster? Tell me a story.
Most of my pranks involved camp shenanigans; the ones that didn't I'm advised not to speak of without benefit of counsel...

4. Were you in any clubs or societies in high school? Did any of those club activities make it into your novels?
I was in student government, and Chorale. I don't think either of those have made it into any of my novels. That's probably because I don't exactly have fond memories of high school; coincidentally, neither do my characters!

5. Do you consider yourself a feminist? Why, or why not?
I absolutely consider myself a feminist, with great pride. Feminism is about thinking women should be equal to men. I think we should be; therefore, I'm a feminist.

6. How does your answer to question 5 show up in your new book?
I think feminism allows us to imagine all kinds of different women doing different things, instead of just a few shopworn stereotypes. There are four intriguing women in my new book: Beverly Cassel and her three adult daughters. They couldn't be more different from one another: an office manager, a concert cellist, a professor, and a bartender/artist. They're all feminists, too, because if it weren't for feminism, none of them would have the professions they hold.

7. The club in my book is called The Loyal Order of the Basset Hounds. If you were to found a secret society, what would it be called, and what would its mission be?
It would be called the Society of Stilettos and it would be dedicated to teaching women everywhere that they can, in fact, walk in high heels if they would only lean back and walk on their heels. (Seriously.)

P.S. Here's Megan's blog!

I am interviewed on Debbi Michiko Florence's literature website! Find out how I sold my first book, how I got the idea for The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, and more.

Also, though tiny bits are being fine-tuned, I want to announce that my website has officially been redesigned and there's a new URL: www.e-lockhart.com.

The old URL, theboyfriendlist.com will still work -- you don't have to change your blogroll or anything -- but it will point instead to THIS BLOG, rather than to a homepage. Then from this blog, people can easily get to the homepage.
Curt from Skytemple and Theo Black made clever animations for all my books -- go check it out.

The How to Be Bad MySpace Page is up!

For my new book, How to Be Bad, c-written with Lauren Myracle and Sarah Mlynowski, due in stores May 6.

The page is chock-full of fun stuff:

• Travel photos from our mis-spent youth! (me wearing strange pants in Paris! Lauren leaping around in a crazy striped outfit! Sarah consuming half a watermelon al by herself!)
•Video from our Florida road trip
•Photos of us in goofy t-shirts and with Disney characters
•How to be bad -- in a good way
• Embarassing podcast of us reading from the book
• Contest to win a signed advanced reading copy
• True stories about how "bad" we've been

Come visit us, friend us, and tell us your own stories.

x

Even though Marc Acito claims, below, that no one else has written books about theater geeks
(Ha! and since I know you've already read my Dramarama, go right now and read Maryrose Wood's My Life The Musical),
I love him and his video (below) anyway.

Have you busted into song lately?

Shouldn't you?

This morning, I sang on the street: "I'm quick on the trigger. With targets not much bigger than a pinpoint, I'm number one! But I lose all my luster when I'm with a bronco buster. No, you can't get a man with a gun!"
It was a good way to start the morning, though possibly embarrassing to my companion.
Sing it out, people. No shame.

(Dramarama comes out in paperback this May, by the way. And Acito's Attack of the Theater People is the sequel to How I Paid for College, a truly awesome theater geektastic reading experience, though full of many ADULT situations, for those of you not yet old enough to join the army).

Anyway, here's the video. Enjoy!

Sarah, Lauren and I did the PW Q&A! Click to learn everything about how we collaboratively wrote How to Be Bad, which comes out May 6.
Beware of flatulence and alligators.

Via Dirty Librarian. I can never resist a meme. Plus, I am procrastinating Roo3!

You.
Can.
Only.
Type.
One.
Word.

No.
Explanations.

1. Where is your cell phone? pocket

2. Your significant other? traveling

3. Your hair? erratic

4. Your mother? supportive

5. Your father? worrying

6. Your favorite thing? books

7. Your dream last night? blank

8. Your favorite drink? lemonade

9. Your dream/goal? Printz

10. The room you're in? clean!

11. Your ex? depressed

12. Your fear? illness

13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? country

14. Where were you last night? imagination

15. What you're not? easy

16. Muffins? yes

17. One of your wish list items? jellyroll

18. Where you grew up? Seattle

19. The last thing you did? drycleaning

20. What are you wearing? yoga

21. Your TV? uninteresting

22. Your pets? ancient

23. Your computer? gwendolyn

24. Your life? lucky

25. Your mood? reluctant

26. Missing someone? madly

27 Your car? nonexistent

28. Something you're not wearing? earrings

29 Favorite Store? Sahadi's

30. Your summer? city

31. Like someone? sure

32. Your favorite color? blue

33. When is the last time you laughed? today

34. Last time you cried? yesterday

35. Who will/would re-post this? Lara

Paula Chase (author of So Not the Drama) interviewed me over at her blog, and made me tell her what clichés I am, what celebrity I'd stalk, and more.

An interview about Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks over at Shanna Swendson's blog. Shanna wrote Enchanted Inc. and other fun magical tales.

And at Karin Gillespie's blog, another interview! Karin is the author, most recently of Earthly Pleasures and Bottom Dollar Girl.