Pajants art!
April 24, 2011
Here is the fluffy bunny I painted on the pajants! (If you don't know about the pajants, read this and click the links.) Now Melissa C. Walker has them. Can't wait to see what she does.
Pajants!
April 21, 2011
So: you know all about the Twitterhood of the Butt-Lifting Pajants, do you not?
If not, go visit the Facebook Page of the Twitterhood. Or, read my old post explaining EVERYTHING. Or, go on Twitter and read the hashtag #pajants.
Okay. Are you up to speed? Good. Now the pants have been rocked by: Julia DeVillers, Lauren Myracle, Sarah Mlynowski, Elizabeth Eulberg, Susane Colasanti, Courtney Sheinmel and Lauren Oliver. From me they go to Melissa Walker, then Tara Altebrando, Maureen Johnson, David MacGinnis Gill and WHO KNOWS HOW MANY OTHER YA WRITERS.
But I have them. Right now! I got them from Courtney Sheinmel, author of Positively, My So-Called Family and more -- today underneath a dino skeleton at The American Museum of Natural History. She wore them to a Passover Seder with Lauren Oliver, author of Before I Fall and Delerium. (I have never met Lauren, but her sister befriended MY sister all the way in Oxford, England, where they were both studying philosophy. Isn't that wild?)
Anyway, the pants were apparently clean and I PUT THEM ON right away in the primates exhibit. Yes, I put them on RIGHT IN THE EXHIBIT! No one looked twice. Is New York Effing City, and people put pajants on next to the chimpanzee skeletons all the time, no doubt. Also, I was wearing a dress, which looks like a tunic in the picture because I hiked it up for better pajants viewing.
It was too dark in there to get near any seriously big apes, I am sad to say. The pajants had to be photographed with some rhesus monkeys and I don't know what all else -- but little guys.
I was then VERY overheated in the pajants, because ALL OF HUMANITY was in the ANHM, since it was about 1:30 pm of the fourth day of public school spring break. The human-type primates were running amok and generating way too much body heat. So I just pulled them off like the primate that I am, tucked them in the shopping bag Courtney provided, and went home with dignity almost in tact.
I think I am passing them to Melissa Walker on Saturday. She wrote Small Town Sinners, Violet on the Runway, etc.
But I have to decorate them first. I am thinking....fluffy bunny on the butt. Stay tuned. Happy Easter.
xo
E
Win a signed copy of Invisible Inkling
April 20, 2011
Win a signed copy of Invisible Inkling (my upcoming Emily Jenkins book about a kid with an invisible friend, with pictures by NYTimes bestselling artist, Harry Bliss).
I'm having a Twitter contest. The hashtag is #invisibleinkling and details are on my Twitter page, but if you're seeing this kinda late, here's what it says (below). Come enter! Spread the word!
xo
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As many entries as you want! #invisibleinkling RT @aprilcpeace: @elockhart are we allowed more than one entry?
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Contest will go on for a week! Then I'll mail signed copies of#invisibleinkling to the five most hilarious entries.
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Examples of what you might write: #invisibleinkling I'd go to a cake shop, sneak in the back, and eat the frosting off all their beaters.
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Examples of what you might write: #invisibleinkling I'd lick the necks of clean and attractive gentlemen in the subway.
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Some examples of what you might write: #invisibleinkling I'd run nudie-booty through the park singing Bohemian Rhapsody.
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The details on #invisibleinkling: http://bit.ly/hLPNOc including art, excerpt and video goofiness.
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What is #invisibleinkling? Is book by me (Emily Jenkins) about a kid with an invisible friend. Pix by Harry Bliss. Comes out next week.
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Here is #invisibleinkling contest: in one tweet, with that inkling hashtag, tell me what you'd do if you were invisible. PG-13 please.
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Wanna win a signed copy of #invisibleinkling, new Jenkins book? Let's have a contest! @ABBalzer @DJBray @harpercollins@librarylovefest
Library pix!
April 16, 2011
The Seattle Public LIbrary event was really fun -- thanks to all who came out! The awesome SPL librarians and Random House got together for pumpkin and frog-themed cupcakes, and the library itself is famously designed by Rem Koolhaus -- you can see a pic below of their teen space. It's unbelievable.
Now I'm at SCBWI's annual conference here in Washington, meeting great children's writers. Then I go back to my regular life and try to write a book.
xo from Seattle (well, the greater Seattle area)
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Seattle, etc.
April 13, 2011
I am in Seattle. It is strange. I grew up here but don't go back very often. The Ruby Oliver books are all set here. It's like driving through Roo's life. In a town car, though. And also driving through my childhood, which was not really like Roo's, but which has some of the same settings.
I drank two lattes, both made as if a latte is just what you are offering when you say "you want a cup of coffee?" -- whereas where I live, it's a pot you probably made an hour ago, and that's fine. But the lattes were really good. I was hyper!
I went to
Mockingbird Bookstore, a charming children's shop in my old home neighborhood of Greenlake;
Third Place Books in Lake Forest, which is huge and has extremely knowledgeable kids book staff,
Elliott Bay, which wins the beauty pageant, it is so gorgeous and I shopped there all the time as a kid and they still have the castle you can play in!
and Secret Garden, which is really charming and I had so much fun there I had to leave before I'd properly inspected the children's area.
All these stores have SIGNED copies of Invisible Inkling, yes, early! I also signed most Lockhart titles, some picture books and Toys books at all places. Thank you to all the great booksellers I met.
Tomorrow (Wed), I am off the Seattle grid, cavorting with old high school pals, but you can read my ramblings about trying to be a good person and the Ruby Oliver books over at Readergirlz -- where they are also giving away a set of Roo books during their awesome Rock the Drop initiative. Read more about it here.
Thursday, Seattle Public Library downtown! Teen event, 4:30 pm. Librarians and other adult-type peeps, 7 pm. Please come. They promise cupcakes, in celebration of Treasure Map of Boys.
Friday thru Saturday I'm at the (all sold-out) awesome SCBWI Western Washington conference, along with Joe Monti, Holly Black, Dan Santat and a host of other interesting writers and editors. Looking forward to it.
Then back to kind-of normal life.
xoE
Seattle, April 14
April 06, 2011
Reminder/Repeat:
Seattelites, I am rocking the downtown Seattle Public Library on April 14th and there will be cupcakes.
Teens, your event is at 4:30. Librarians, you're at 7:00. Please come out and see me in my home town, where all the Ruby Oliver books are set! Also, I will sign books, courtesy of University Bookstore, one of my fave bookstores ever, where I spent hours and hours of my otherwise misspent youth.
YA Mafia
April 01, 2011
My newest book.* Out today!
YA MAFIA, a collection of short stories
compiled by E. Lockhart and John Green
The cool kids rule in this anthology of tales that leaves the losers behind.
And unpublished.
* Happy April Fool's day. This awesome cover and flap copy, and the whole idea, brought to you by The Horn Book.