E. Lockhart's Blog, page 29

This, from my friend Tanya Lee Stone.  You KNOW you have Barbie stories. You must. 

Send them to her!

My next tween/teen book is a history of the Barbie doll and its impact on girl culture. As part of that project, I'm inviting kids to send me their stories. All the deets are on this link on my website. 

http://www.tanyastone.com/index.php?id=51  Tanya Lee Stonewww.tanyastone.com www.myspace.com/tanyaleestoneauthor

David Levithan   of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and a gazillion other books is organizing the first-ever Teen Literature Festival this March. SO EXCITING.

Here is the schedule. Come to NY and get your teen lit freak on!  The only thing I will be doing is the ginormous signing at Books of Wonder, but I hope to attend lots of things as an audience member! 


Juvenalia
Smackdown

Monday, 3/16, 4-6pm,
Tompkins Square Park branch of the NYPL, 331 E. 10th Street

Join Holly Black, Alaya Johns

Stories of deep embarassment.  LOL monkeys and cats. A strange Japanese game show.  Hugh Laurie and Hank Green, both at their finest.  Donut demise. Knock knock jokes. People eating food off the floor. Lessons on how to be Ninja and how to be Nerd! Hamsters in helmets.Many Twlight spoofs. (Funny but um....dare I say, not a difficult target?)Cute kids. Sad stories of stupidity.  A cheeseburger bed. Obama dancing and hitting cats with snowballs, Clips from Friends, Ellen, The Soup, etc.Laughtastic

I am so so pleased that The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks won a Cybils Award for best young adult novel!  See the rest of the winners here.

Oooh, I love getting cover art. 

Random House, my publisher, is giving Fly on the Wall a fresh look that's going to be on books starting this summer.  Here it is!  There will be new flap copy, too, which I'm getting to work on. 
In other news, I am going to finish reading all the contest entries over the weekend and will pick two winners!  Thanks so so much for all the laughs. :)
E