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Disreputable History vs. We Are the Ship - the results, and very interesting insights, from judge Rachel Cohn.  
P.S. Categories in typepad have gone wonky. Hopefully it will get fixed soon.

You can vote in the People's Choice poll for the SLJ Tournament of Books, in which Disreputable History will battle We are the Ship. 

Judges include Ann Brashares, Roger Sutton, Tamora Pierce, John Sciezska, Ellen Wittlinger, Meg Rosoff, Rachel Cohn. So you know you want to tune in and read what they think. It starts on Monday. 
I myself would be honored to be taken out by anything by Kadir Nelson. I love that guy's work and have been trying to get to do a picture book with him for ages. 

If you're not sick of me yet,  here's an interview I did with School Library Journal. 

I am in Florida. I played pirate mini-golf and saw a 73 year-old parrot ride a unicycle. I ate smorgasboard. I shot video footage for a short movie I'm making to celebrate the How to Be Bad paperback, which comes out April 21. It will have amusing footage of me, Lauren and Sarah singing songs from Grease and Sound of Music,dancing do-si-do with a possibly homeless gentleman, interviewing people about what it me

Maureen Johnson now has a ning. 

Meaning you can join up and chat about jellyfish,  hamsters, the Suite Scarlett paperback release, hot British guys, and other stuff of interest to MJ (and everyone, yes?). She's also blogging every day in April. 
In other news, Roo4 is still stalled. I have added wakeboarding! To spice it up a little. Wakeboarding with shirtless hunky guys, even! This is my idea of how to improve a manuscript. Some of you like to add zombies. Some of you add hoverboard chases. (An

Oh, I love a nice drag-out fight. And a nice literary discussion. And a book battle!
Here are two links if you like those things too:
The Tea Cozy discussion of the Disreputable History's Morning News zombie round is very good. 
The brackets are up for the SLJ Battle of the Kids Books, and Disreputable History squares off against We are the Ship. 
In other news, since you all said you wanted to hear about the writing life on this blog:I am drinking a peach smoothie. I am at my desk.I am not writing

P.S. Sara Zarr just went public with her Twitter, too. So I am in good company. 

Also, Mitali Perkins lists all the YA authors currently twittering here. Geektastic! 
I follow almost no one on that thing. Otherwise I would never write. But if you follow anyone, follow Maureen Johnson. She is extremely awesome at it.

Okay. I have succumbed. Possibly because I was turned into a zombie this morning. 

But I am now publicly on the Twitter. Come follow. 

I have come back as a zombie! 

http://themorningnews.org/tob/
and lost again. But THANKS for resurrecting me, you guys.
As usual, the commentary is fun to read too.

It has been a while since I've done a meme!  (Okay. Not that long. but hey. I am procrastinating!)

Here is the "Book Maven" meme. Repost and answer! (If it amuses you.)
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Charles Dickens. For my grad school orals, I read 9 Dickens novels in a single summer.

2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I own several beautifully illustrated editions. 

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
No. But

Tiger Beat (the all YA author band) covers "I want Candy" during the Teen Author Festival.
Libba Bray on vocals.
David Levithan sneaking through as if we can't see him.  Details of the band etc. in the link above.