E. Lockhart's Blog, page 25

Apologies for the technical malfunctioning of the blog. Fixing it involves me dealing with HTML and my brain is exploding from it. Hopefully will be up and running in a more normal fashion soon.

xoE
P.S. Have you all read Jellicoe Road?  read it read it!

Are you a YA book blogger?
If you are, and you'd like to have an ARC of The Treasure Map of Boys (in stores July 25th) my publisher wants to send you one!
You're under no obligation to blog about it.You're under no obligation to say you like it. They just want the extra ARCs in the hands of people who care about YA books and talk about them on the internet.
The Treasure Map of Boys is the third in my series of Ruby Oliver books. The first two are The Boyfriend List and The Boy Book, both out in pap

My friend Ally Carter has a new book out!  Watch the vid to learn all about Don't Judge a Girl by her Cover.

If you don't know the Gallagher Girls series that started with I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You, they are perfect summer beach reads and highly addictive -- with kick-butt lethal weapon heroines training to be spies. 

Just came back from my college reunion. I went to Vassar.

Back in 2006, I wrote this post. It details all the YA writers I knew about then who went there for school. Eight people, including me. Which is quite a lot! 
Then today, on twitter, I promised a  ARC of the upcoming THE TREASURE MAP OF BOYS to the first person who could name four YA writers who'd gone there.I got a ton of responses!  
Here is the list I have compiled. By the way:  I haven't vetted it!! In other words, this is the kind of th

"THE TREASURE MAP OF BOYS

(warning: spoilers if you haven't read The Boy Book)
"Ruby Oliver, the neurotic, lovable, and painfully believable heroine of two previous volumes (The Boyfriend List, 2005, and The Boy Book, 2006), returns. The relative stability gained in The Boy Book is fleeting: Ruby’s crushing on Noel but can’t admit it as Nora likes him, and her now-single ex, Jackson, is leaving her notes. What’s a girl to do? Run the best bake sale ever (while defying expectations and tradition),

Snagged off Sarah Dessen's blog, a pic of Ally Carter, Sarah Dessen, me and Sara Zarr at the Children's Book Auction party at BEA.  We were a symphony of black, white and teal. 

Our new books (coming out between July and October):Ally:  Don't Judge a Girl By Her CoverSarah:  Along for the Rideme: The Treasure Map of BoysSara: Once Was Lost

The California supreme court ruling on gay marriage outrages and saddens me. Please go read author Libba Bray's wonderful and personal and insightful blog post on the subject.  LIbba wrote A Great and Terrible Beauty and the final book in her trilogy -- The Sweet Far Thing -- just came out in paperback. 

I'll be at BEA, but not signing. Come see me at the children's book breakfast, the auction, the Balzer + Bray launch, the Macmillan desserts thingummy, the Common Ground party... I will have a couple ARCs of Treasure Map, so if you want one, ask.

I am finishing Roo4. I am so close to the end!  

I am maybe writing the end AS YOU ARE READING THIS!
Meanwhile, this vid has amused me several times and the theme song is now well lodged in my head. Prepare for serious cuteness.  

Help me out again!

Two more film lists for Roo4:

Movies where the safe responsible boyfriend or
husband turns out to be a closet jerk, thus transforming himself into the
rotten boyfriend -- thus freeing the heroine to
leave him for someone more exciting, guilt-free: Desperately Seeking Susan; The Wedding Singer; Moonstruck...




WHAT ELSE? I know there are a million things I am forgetting. 

And:

Movies where a brooding, even sulky guy seems like really quite a good idea for a boyfriend: