E. Lockhart's Blog, page 22

Lee Wind's blog!  Has super-cool Banned Book Week Q&As on it!

Me, Jacqui Robbins, Ellen Hopkins, Sarah Brennan, Frank Portman.  Section one is here. Section two is here. 

And Book People in Austin Texas, most excellent bookshop, has interviews up on its blog about Banned Books Week, with a great roster of folks besides me: Maureen Johnson, Garret Freymann-Weyr and K.L. Going.

IN OTHER NEWS, VAMPIRE GLAMOUR!

I went to Melissa de la Cruz's vampire book-launch party last night for The Van Alen...

Image by Literaticat. 

Happy Banned Books week.  Learn more here. If some people had their way, you'd never be allowed to read Harry Potter, or TTYL, or Forever, or Huckleberry Finn, Gossip Girl, The Golden Compass or The Catcher in the Rye.

What kind of world would that be?

Speak out. Talk to your English teachers and librarians and get a dialog going in class. Or just talk to your friends about it.  The more we are educated about these issues, the less power the censors will have. 

Here is...

Okay, Typepad (which is my blogging interface software thingee) just completely redesigned.  Hopefully this will solve my problems with typefaces changing on me, but I don't know. 

I have been the worst blogger since returning from tour.  Sorry. My brain is fried. But to answer your questions, Roo 4, aka REAL LIVE BOYFRIENDS, will come out in Fall 2010.  It is finished. 

I know what happens!  And I'm not telling. 

I am enjoying the back-to-school feeling of fall, working on some new projects...

Sometimes the author is the last to know. 

In April, it turns out, The Boy Book was challenged in a Texas school.  
I love how the article  quotes my story at length on what kind of bra you should wear if you have puny frontal equipment.  Hee hee hee. But my very favorite bit is this beautifully tangled sentence: "Despite racy chapter titles and content, some say it is too adult for young eyes."
The awesome school district officials upheld the inclusion of the book in the library system...

Correction: Brookline Library event on Sunday is changed to 2PM! Not 1 PM.

Tonight, 6 pm, I'm reading at Jefferson Market Library. My only NYC appearance for The Treasure Map of Boys. Details here.

Please come out and see me. Librarians and teachers: bring your teenagers!

The other day I finished Liar, by my friend Justine Larbalestier. I have loved JL's other books, in particular the witty, exuberant and utterly imaginative How to Ditch Your Fairy -- and Liar is SPECTACULAR. Amazing plot twists. 

It's all about this girl, Micah, whose boyfriend has disappeared. Or been murdered. But was he really her boyfriend?And was she really where she says she was that night? 
Nothing is stable in the story, because Micah is a liar. On a grand scale.Only: she promises to...

Librarians and Bookselllers:

My lovely publisher, Random House, is sending me on tour week of Sept 13 on, and they've opened up some more spots in the schmoozy-type dinners in Dallas and Boston. 
If you're an area bookseller or teen/children's librarian, and want to come eat some food with me and talk books, I'd love to meet you.
To get a spot, email  jshoffel @ randomhouse.com  (Jessica)  and she'll give you the scoop. Put "E. Lockhart Dinner" and the name of your city (Dallas or Boston).  
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Little bits:

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks is out in paperback! 
Check out Lauren Myracle's TTYL series BFF quizzie fun book.
John and Hank Green have a game show.  It's called Truth or Fail. 
Wednesday Sept 9th I'll be at Jefferson Market Library in New York City with a great line-up of fellow writers. 6pm. 
Sunday, Sept 13th I'll be at Brookline Public Library in Brookline, MA.  1:00 p.m.Brookline Public Library
361 Washington Street
Brookline, MA 02466

Wednesday, Sept 16th I'll be