E. Lockhart's Blog, page 28

The Teen Author Festival was awesome!  The big signing at Books of Wonder was tremendous fun, and I'm so pleased so many of you came out to see us. I had a blast -- though I also felt nervous. It was my first event in a long time. 
Here are some photos of Tiger Beat, the all YA author band that played at Books of Wonder. Libba Bray on vocals, Barnaby Miller on drums (where is the dude's website? can't find), Dan Ehrenhaft on guitar, Natalie Standiford on base.  David Levithan and Rachel Cohn were

Interesting article by Jennifer Weiner  on the subject of weighty manly-type fiction versus "chick lit" or even serious literature about traditionally female issues.  All apropos of the Tea Cozy discussion  and the Morning News Tournament of Books judgement and commentary.

In other news, the NYC Teen Literature Festival starts today!  I am hoping to go to the Juvenilia Smackdown and find out what Justine Larbalestier  and friends  were like as actual teens. Details on the Justine link. 
And since

Oh, I love the Tea Cozy, and today Liz talks about and analyzes the whole Morning News Tournament of Books thingummy.  YAY. 

If you write and read YA, and you want to get your hackles up a bit, go read! 
(where does that phrase come from? get your hackles up? oh. thank you google. hackles are the hairs on your neck, a dog' s neck, feathers on a bird's neck)

The First-Ever Teen Author Festival begins on Monday. 

All details here on the Longstockings blog. 
I will be at the big Books of Wonder signing and hopefully at the NYPL Best Stuff for the Teenage. As an audience member, I'm hoping to go to many other things. 
Libba Bray is going to sing, y'all. LIke, in a kind of a band. Tiger Beat, the first all-YA band.  I think this is not anything that can be missed if you can conceivably get there. 

I have been defeated in The Morning News Tournament of Books by Peter Mattheisson and SHadow Country. No surprise. 

But read the commentary on the judgement.Interesting....

The Morning News Tournament of Books has begun. 

Friday, I square off against National Book Award winner Peter Matheisson. Um.Yah.  
If I lose (when I lose) I can still come back as a ZOMBIE maybe.Anyway, it's complete and total fun, the tournament.
xoE

Well, one of my contest winners never showed up! It's been two weeks, and we still have a gorgeous Theo Black-designed Disreputable History t-shirt, a Dramarama audiobook and a book to give away,so:   I have pulled another name out of the hat. 

K.S. Davis, who sent the Pride and Prejudice as Facebook updates, you are the new winner!  Please send me an email at elockhart @ earthlink.net and give me your address and tell me which book you'd like. (If you're under 15, please have a parent email me f

In the category of things on the internet that I am probably the last person on earth to see -- but which I'm posting anyway. 

The ultimate happy dance video.  (it works better if you turn HD off)

The Morning News Tournament of Books is starting on March 9th. Here are the judges and an explanation and all that good stuff. 

If you download the PDF of the brackets for the competition, you'll see Disreputable History is up in the first round against Shadow Country, winner of the National Book Award. So um... yeah.  SC is a favorite with a ranking of 1 -- while DHOFLB is a dark horse at 4.  It's also the only YA novel in the competition. But still!  Fun.

You can comment as the tournament progre

Nerissa!  Wherever you are, you won the contest (together with Dee), so email me at elockhart @ earthlink.net and read the blog post lower down for more info.

E