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The 2012 NYC Teen Author Festival is coming up at the end of March!  Woot! The schedule and locales are below, with my small bit in bold if you want to come see me. Here is a clip from last year's Sex Panel, me reading and gabbing. Look! Sarah Mlynowski is wearing the pajants!

The previous year, David Levithan, Libba Bray, John Green and I ACTED OUT scenes from each other's books. (This is Not up on YouTube, and I might be thankful! :) I got to play Maura from Will Grayson Will Grayson, though, which was VERY FUN. So you can see, it gets very exciting at this festival and you MUST SHOW UP TO IT and support YA books, teen literacy, and general awesomeness.  

http://www.facebook.com/NYCTeenAuthorFestival

Monday, March 26  (Mulberry Street Branch of the NYPL, 10 Jersey Street b/w Mulberry and Lafayette, 6-8):   

Plotting Dangerously:  Doing What it Takes to Find the Story

Coe Booth
Jen Calonita
Paul Griffin
Deborah Heiligman
Melissa Kantor
Morgan Matson
Kieran Scott
Melissa Walker

moderator: David Levithan


Tuesday, March 27  (McNally Jackson Bookstore,  52 Prince Street, 7-8:30):
The Mutual Admiration Society Reading

Madeleine George
Ellen Hopkins
David Levithan
Jennifer Smith
John Corey Whaley


Wednesday. March 28 (42nd St NYPL, Bergen Forum, 6-8): 
Things Fall Apart: World Building and World Destroying in YA

Anna Carey
Sarah Beth Durst
Anne Heltzel
Jeff Hirsch
Andy Marino
Lauren McLaughlin
Lissa Price
Jon Skovron

moderator:  Chris Shoemaker


Thursday, March 29:
The NYC Big Read

NOTE: SPECIFIC MANHATTAN LIBRARY LOCATIONS TO COME

Queens – Long Island City branch of the Queens Public Library (37-44 21 Street?Long Island City, NY 11101)

Tara Altebrando        
Brent Crawford         
Gina Damico                    
Jeff Hirsch    
Andy Marino                    
Jon Skovron
Alecia Whitaker        

Manhattan – Locations to come

Jen Calonita   
Anna Carey                                     
Matthew Cody           
Jocelyn Davies                         
Melissa De La Cruz             
Hilary Graham                                          
Christopher Grant                                              
Leanna Renee Hieber                                            
Anne Heltzel   
Gwendolyn Heasley              
PG Kain                                
Kody Keplinger 
Lauren McLaughlin              
Sarah Mlynowski        
Eugene Myers                   
Micol Ostow                                    
Stephanie Perkins              
Jessica Rotherberg             
Lena Roy       
Erin Saldin            
Leila Sales                    
Eliot Schrefer                 
Samantha Schutz                                        
Mark Shulman           
Arlaina Tibensky                                               
                                               
               
Brooklyn – Brooklyn Public Library, central branch, Grand Army Plaza
Kate Ellison                   
Gayle Forman           
Melissa Kantor         
Barry Lyga                     
Michael Northrop               
Matthue Roth           
Victoria Schwab
Melissa Walker         

Bronx -- Bronx Library Center - 310 East Kingsbridge Road, Bronx                       
Elizabeth Eulberg              
Paul Griffin                   
Alissa Grosso                          
David Levithan         
Sarah Darer Littman    
Kieran Scott   
John Corey Whaley              

               
Friday, March 30, morning (Scholastic, 557 Broadway), 10am
Scholastic In-House Event  (not open to the public)

Reading/Signing:
Eireann Corrigan
Elizabeth Eulberg
Kim Harrington
Jeff Hirsch
Erin Saldin
Eliot Schrefer
Siobhan Vivian
Suzanne Weyn

Signing only:
Coe Booth
Sarah Darer Littman
Barry Lyga
Sarah Mlynowski
Michael Northrop
Samantha Schutz


Friday March 30, Symposium (42nd Street NYPL, 2-6)

2:00 – Introduction

2:10-3:00: Being Friends With Boys

Elizabeth Eulberg
Jenny Han
Terra Elan McVoy
Stephanie Perkins

moderator:  Sarah Mlynowski

3:00-3:50:  The Writer as Time Traveler:  Writing the Past While Sitting in the Present

Judy Blundell
Matthew Cody
Jennifer Donnelly
Leanna Renee Hieber
Suzanne Weyn

moderator:  David Levithan


3:50-4:40:  No Ordinary Love:  How to Create a Satisfying Love Story and a Satisfying Supernatural World at the Same Time

Andrea Cremer
Melissa de la Cruz
Jeri Smith-Ready
Victoria Schwab
Margaret Stohl

moderator:  Barry Lyga


4:40-5:30:  New Voices Spotlight

Emily Danforth
Kate Ellison
Lucas Klauss
Carley Moore
Aleica Whittaker



Friday March 30, Barnes & Noble Reader's Theater/Signing (Union Square B&N, 33 E 17th St, 7-8:30)

Andrea Cremer
Emily Danforth
Lucas Klauss
Stephanie Perkins
Siobhan Vivian
John Corey Whaley

moderator:  David Levithan


Saturday March 31, Symposium (42nd Street NYPL, 1-5)

1:00 – Introduction

1:10-2:00 – Rising to the Challenge: YA Characters Facing Down What Life Throws Them

Tara Altebrando
Matt Blackstone
Susane Colasanti
Kody Keplinger
Siobhan Vivian
K.M. Walton

moderator:  David Levithan


2:00-2:50 -- Killer Instincts:  Death, Murder, and the YA Novel

Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Gina Damico
Kim Harrington
Barry Lyga

moderator:  Marie Rutkoski


2:50-4:00 -- Moments of Truth: Characters at a Crossroads

Natasha Friend
Margie Gelbwasser
Jennifer Hubbard
Stewart Lewis
Sarah Darer Littman
Jess Rothenberg
Daisy Whitney

moderator:  E. Lockhart


4:00-5:00 – Looking Forward to Fall

David Levithan
Marie Rutkoski
Eliot Schrefer
…and more authors reading from their upcoming books


Sunday April 1:  Our No-Foolin' Mega-Signing at Books of Wonder (Books of Wonder, 1-4): 


1-1:45:
Jennifer Barnes         (Every Other Day, Egmont)
Matt Blackstone (A Scary Scene in a Scary Movie, FSG)
Caroline Bock   (LIE, St. Martin's)
Jen Calonita            (Belles, Little Brown)
Anna Carey              (Eve, Harper)
Susane Colasanti        (So Much Closer, Penguin)
Andrea Cremer   (Bloodrose, Penguin)
Gina Damico             (Croak, HMH)
Emily Danforth  (The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Harper)
Jocelyn Davies  (A Beautiful Dark, Harper)             
Sarah Beth Durst        (Drink, Slay, Love, S&S)
Elizabeth Eulberg       (Take a Bow, Scholastic)
Gayle Forman            (Where She Went, Penguin)
Natasha Friend  (For Keeps, Penguin)
Kim Harrington  (Perception, Scholastic)
Barry Lyga              (I Hunt Killers, Little Brown)
Daisy Whitney   (The Rivals, Little Brown)                     



1:45-2:30
Margie Gelbwasser       (Pieces of Us, Flux)
Alissa Grosso           (Popular, Flux)        
Jenny Han               (We'll Always Have Summer, S&S)                        
Leanna Renee Hieber     (Darker Still, Sourcebooks)                            
Anne Heltzel            (Circle Nine, Candlewick)
Jeff Hirsch             (The Eleventh Plague, Scholastic)
Jennifer Hubbard        (Try Not to Breathe, Penguin)
Melissa Jensen  (The Fine Art of True or Dare, Penguin)
PG Kain         (Famous for Thirty Seconds, S&S)                       
Melissa Kantor  (The Darlings in Love, Hyperion)
Kody Keplinger  (Shut Out, Little Brown)
Lucas Klauss            (Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse, S&S)
David Levithan  (Every You, Every Me, RH)
Stewart Lewis           (You Have Seven Messages, RH)
Sarah Darer Littman     (Want to Go Private?, Scholastic)
Elisa Ludwig            (Pretty Crooked, S&S)

2:30-3:15
Carolyn Mackler (The Future of Us, Penguin)            
Andy Marino             (Unison Spark, FSG)
Wendy Mass              (13 Gifts, Scholastic)
Terra Elan McVoy        (The Summer of Firsts and Lasts, S&S)  
Lauren McLaughlin       (Scored, RH)
Sarah Mlynowski (Ten Things We Did, RH)
Carley Moore            (The Stalker Chronicles, FSG)
E. C. Myers             (Fair Coin, Pyr)
Michael Northrop        (Plunked, Scholastic)
Micol Ostow             (What Would My Cell Phone Do?, Penguin)        
Stephanie Perkins       (Lola and the Boy Next Door, Penguin)
Jessica Rotherberg      (The Catastrophic History of You and Me, Penguin)
Marie Rutkoski  (The Jewel of the Kalderash, FSG)
Erin Saldin             (The Girls of No Return, Scholastic)
Leila Sales             (Past Perfect, S&S)
Kieran Scott            (He's So Not Worth It, S&S)

3:15-4:00
Melissa De La Cruz      (Lost in Time, Hyperion)
Alyssa Sheinmel,        (The Lucky Kind, RH)
Jennifer Smith          (The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, Little Brown)
Jeri Smith-Ready        (Shift, S&S)
Jon Skovron             (Misfit, Abrams)
Victoria Schwab (The Near Witch, Hyperion)
Mark Shulman            (Are You Normal?, National Geographic)
Margaret Stohl  (Beautiful Chaos, Little Brown)
Arlaina Tibensky        (And Then Things Fell Apart, S&S)                      
Siobhan Vivian  (The List, Scholastic)
Melissa Walker  (Small Town Sinners, Bloomsbury)
K.M. Walton             (Cracked, S&S)
John Corey Whaley       (Where Things Come Back, S&S)
Alecia Whitaker (The Queen of Kentucky, Little Brown)
Maryrose Wood   (The Unseen Guest, Harper)
Natalie Zaman    and Charlotte Bennardo (Sirenz, Flux)

Monday at 8pm EST,
Shannon Hale (Newbery winner and author of the adult novels Austenland and the new Midnight in Austenland),
Elizabeth Eulberg (Prom & Prejudice and the new Take a Bow, which is a complete SQUEE book for all you Dramarama type readers out there)
and E. Lockhart (that's me!) 
are doing a live panel/Q&A thing on Figment.It is all about Jane Austen: why people still read her, why everyone keeps rewriting her, what is the MEANING OF JANE? 

You should TOTALLY JOIN US.

Also. I wrote this really kind of mean-spirited article about people writing Austen novels for Salon in 2000 under my legal name. Go read it so you are super-prepared for our panel!

I don't know you if you know this, but I have a Ph.D in 19th century British novel and sometimes I really get my OPINION on. So I love Shannon and Elizabeth's work, and you know I ran right out and bought both Austenland and Prom & Prejudice as soon as they came out!  True. But I also think there's some validity to what I said (though goodness knows I didn't need to keep calling books failures, that is pretty snarky expecially given that I had only written half a novel myself at that stage of the game) --
--so maybe we will have a good old-fashioned literary BRAWL?
Or will we cuddle? 

Will you ask questions? Pretty please?

(And what will Jennifer Weiner think?)

In any case, I think it should be a really fun an interesting discussion and I hope you'll join.Here is the chat window!  You can just click on it (I think) and be there.  xoE

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Here are the Indonesian covers for The Boyfriend List and The Boy Book. Interesting, huh? As with the American paperbacks, Ruby takes off her glasses or pushes them up on her head.  They completely redesigned the look of the books for Treasure Map of Boys though. I'll show you when I have final art. 

I really like the little pengie on the back jacket of The Boy Book.

So much is going on.

First, FOUR of my dear friends have new books out. Two of them came out TODAY. 

1. Lauren Myracle's Oopsy Daisy, book three in the Flower Power series that started with Luv Ya Bunches. The 9 year-olds I know (and I know many) devour this series, and Lauren is in top notch hysterical form.

2. Jenn Lynn Barnes's Every Other Day. (How amazing is that cover?) It's about a girl who is a demon hunter -- but only every other day. Which causes some problems, yeah?  Jennifer is a master of supernatural suspense thriller type stuff, and you have to go read it.

3. John Green's The Fault in Our Stars. I am a bit scared to read it because I know it will involve DEATH as well as lots of humor and I will cry huge unmanly tears. But he is one of my favorite writers ever so I will face the cancer and sob.

4. Melissa Kantor's The Darlings in Love. I read The Darlings and it is just so New York and so smart and sweet and full of insights about friendship and humanity. I've started the second and it's more of that, only with extra boys! I don't know what else you could want, honestly. 

In other news, I am blogging while eating spearming jelly candies, just like Roo does. Also, the paperback of REAL LIVE BOYFRIENDS is in stores now, as of two weeks ago. Now you can get a complete set of matcng Ruby books, if you like matching things. All the paperbacks go together (unlike the hardcovers). 

Also, how wonderful is this photo of Doctor Seuss, Judy Blume and Maurice Sendak? You don't need to tell me. I know!  Via Blume on twitter via Maria T. Lambert.

Also, Toys Come Home (written as Emily Jenkins) was a Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book of the year. So I am quite pleased about that. And if you need more convincing to buy this book for the 4-10 year-old in your life, here is the School Library Journal blog post that made my head explode. 

Also, are you following me on Twitter? Because I am a much worse blogger than I used to be, but really not bad at the tweeting business, if I do say so myself. 

Happy reading.

xo
E 

Personalized & autographed books by me, for your holiday gift needs, online from a gread indie bookshop. All details here.  Free gift wrap, bonus Lockhart bookmark, and guaranteed holiday shipping. I'll write whatever crazy thing you want me to in your books. Merry merry. 

Personalized & autographed books by me, for your holiday gift needs, online from a gread indie bookshop. All details here.  Free gift wrap, bonus Lockhart bookmark, and guaranteed holiday shipping. I'll write whatever crazy thing you want me to in your books. Merry merry. 

Happy Holidays.

Reminder: If you want to give a book to your teenager with a note from me in it, plus an autograph, a free bookmark and free gift wrap, you can order such a thing online here and support a great indie bookshop, WORD BROOKLYN. Guaranteed holiday shipping. Order by Dec 14.

Here are all the details.

I will write whatever crazy thing you want me to write!  

Another reminder: The paperback of Real Live Boyfriends (book four, Ruby Oliver quartet) releases December 28th. Just in time for Christmas and Hannukah to be OVER. But whatever. I don't control these things.

Last, I want to share this picture, drawn by Caldecott medalist Paul O. Zelinsky, who illustrated Toys Come Home (fresh on shelves now) and Toys Go Out and Toy Dance Party. 

It's a never-before and never-again illustrated picture of the scene from Toys Come Home where Lumphy and StingRay discuss vomit. (Lumphy is nauseated.) Paul drew it while were on tour, and I love it so much.

Two quick things:

Sat, Dec 3, at 3pm Books of Wonder in NYC-- 18 authors celebrating the Twitterhood of the Butt-lifting Pajants, including me, Susane Colasanti, Maureen Johnson, Robin Wasserman, Lauren Myracle, Alan Gratz, Daniel Ehrenhaft -- so many.

Plus a big slideshow with photos of everyone wearing embroidered pajamajeans. It's hard to explain, if you don't know about it yet, but here are some linkies. And even if you don't understand, you should come out and get some signed books for the holidays and meet your favorite authors!

Susane Colasanti's blog about the event is here, which lists all the authors.
Here is the Twitterhood facebook page.  Lookie! Tyra! 

Ann Brashares (who wrote Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) is coming, too. 

Sat Dec 4, 3pm Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO. The Kids Holiday Party. I'll be there, signing the Toys Books and reading. Oliver Jeffers and Masha D'Yans, too. Details here. 

The "neglected positive tote-bag" is the best-selling item at my Zazzle store.  Other stuff is here. 

Also, I can put more stuff up on there, if there's merchandise you long for that's not there. People requested Robespierre, last time I asked -- but the truth is, I don't think anyone's actually bought his goaty mug or his button. Still, they were amusing to make and I have no regrets. 

Anyway, comments are open if you have a suggestion for the store!

Happy holidays.

E

Prepare ye for a long, booktastic post with exciting holiday shopping news.

SIGNED, PERSONALIZED BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS, HANNUKAH, and everything else you might be celebrating. I've got 'em for you right here, right now.

This holiday season, if you order between now and Dec 14th, you can get:

personalized, signed books by ME (that means your name, your dog's name, whatever you want, plus my signature)
including FREE gift-wrap (if you tell them you want it)
and a free E. Lockhart bookmark,
You get all that, PLUS you will know you are supporting an awesome indie bookstore, Word Brooklyn.

Word Brooklyn is the real deal. They are serious about being a neighborhood community center as well as bookstore, and the people who run it really know their stock. I ran my school's elementary school book fair with them and they were incredible. I am pleased and proud to be sending them business this holiday season. This dealie is exclusive to them. 

It's no different from ordering from any online store -- you just put stuff in your shopping cart, then pay. Everything ships on the 15th, 'cause I'm signing it all the day before. They can guarantee Christmas delivery, even!  If you're a Google shopper, you can sign in with your Google account. 

What books can you get?  

All four Ruby Oliver books in paperback, done up as a set of three (first three) -- followed by the last one, Real Live Boyfriends, shipping after its Dec 28 release to join its friends. (Right now RLB is only out in hardcover). The $40 price tag for the set INCLUDES SHIPPING at the media mail rate.  This is a nice set-up for those of you who agonize that your Ruby set doesn't match because the RLB cover is different from the first three in hardback. All the paperbacks match -- even though the Word site is showing some old covers, it's the new ones that are shipping. 

And individual titles:

The Boyfriend List, paperback
The Boy Book, paperback
The Treasure Map of Boys, paperback 
Real Live Boyfriends, hardcover (you can order the paperback, but it won't come out til Dec 28)
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, paperback
Fly on the Wall, paperback  (Hey, you! Yes, you.  I bet you haven't read this one. This is what it's about.)

(By the way, you can buy eBooks from them, too -- but I can't sign and personalize those. Sorry!)
(Also, you can buy books by OTHER WRITERS. They won't be signed and all that, but you could knock off a lot of those holiday gifties in one Word Brooklyn shopping adventure. They have staff picks and holiday gift guides to help you out.)

So, spread the news, and stock up. 

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Enough from the Dept. of Self-Aggrandizement. Though wait!  If you want copies of Toys Come Home signed by me and Paul O. Zelinsky, call up Flying Pig, Anderson's or Copperfield's, or Books of Wonder. Those won't be personalized, of course, but PZ does have a really foxy signature! 

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Okay, now REALLY enough from the Dept. of Self-Aggrandizement.

Most years, I manage to post a list of holiday book-type gifts for you, actual teenagers. Stuff you might get your friends, or stuff your parents should know about to get you. Great reads, fun. You know, if you like my books, you'll also like... that sort of thing. Here is last-year's list.   And some years I've told you what gifts to give your boyfriend, which advice is still fairly relevant.

Anyway, here's my list of good book presents this year, teens only. (I am assuming you are looking beyond the obvious best-sellers like Hunger Games in search of something that will be equally awesome.)
These are my top three picks for an excellent gift, all new this year: 

Divergent, by Veronica Roth. Action-packed, a page-turner, my favorite of the futuristic dystopian thrillers.

Beauty Queens, by Libba Bray. A bunch of beauty queens are shipwrecked. Not for the faint of intelligence, but definitely rollicking fun. 

The Name of the Star, by Maureen Johnson. A YA Jack the Ripper thriller, with ghosts. A scary page-turner with wit. 

Also, HERE'S WHAT I BOUGHT MY MIDDLE-GRADE READER (don't tell!):

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Leisel and Po
A Crooked Kind of Perfect
Alanna (Song of the Lioness Quartet, #1)
Graceling
Savvy
Julia Gillian
The True Meaning of Smekday
Phillippa Fisher's Fairy Godsister
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
The Flint Heart

...and more, if the truth be told. (Don't judge my extravagance. I've been in a different indie bookstore nearly every day this month, what with the tour and all!  I couldn't help myself.) 

What gift to get your boyfriend? If he wouldn't enjoy this, but you're the type of human who's here reading my blog --  he's probably not the right guy for you.  :)