NYC Teen Author Carnival is tomorrow!

PG Kain – Author of The Social Experiments of Dorie Dilts: Dumped by Popular Demand
Website

David Levithan – Author of Wide Awake
Website

Carolyn MacCullough – Author of Once a Witch
Website

Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus – Authors of The Real Real
Website

Sarah MacLean – Author of The Season
Website / Twitter

Taylor Morris – Author of Total Knockout: Tale of an Ex-Class President
Website

Greg Neri – Author of Surf Mules
Website / Twitter

Michael Northrop – Author of Gentlemen

Website

David Ostow – Illustrator of So Punk Rock
Twitter

Micol Ostow – Author of the Bradford Novels
Website / Twitter

Elizabeth Scott – Author of Something, Maybe
Website

Robyn Schneider – Author of Better Than Yesterday
Website / Twitter

Brian Sloan – A Really Nice Prom Mess
Website

Melissa Walker – Author of Lovestruck Summer
Website / Twitter

Robin Wasserman – Author of Skinned
Website / Twitter

Sasha Watson – Author of Vidalia in Paris
Website / Twitter

Beckie Weinheimer – Author of Converting Kate
Website /Twitter

Michelle Zink – Author of Prophecy of the Sisters

Website / Twitter

We’re all divided up into teams and I’m on Team Caramel Apple with:

Libba Bray
Jenny Han
Sarah MacLean
Melissa Walker
Sasha Watson
Pam Bachorz
Greg Neri
David Ostow
Micol Ostow
Sarah Cross
Tish Cohen

The other teams? Cotton Candy and Funnel Cake–they’re going DOWN! Team Caramel Apple is made of awesome and it’ll be fun! Can’t go? The event will also be streaming live, so you can check out the feed.

But if you’re in the city, here are the details one more time:

NYC Teen Author Carnival
May 28th, 2009
4:00 – 6:00 PM

Location:
Jefferson Market Branch Library
425 Avenue of the Americas [at 10th St.],
New York, NY 10011-8454.

See you there!

PS–Got an invite to the YA/MG drinks night? Ask Robyn Schneider, Julia DeVillers or Bennett Madison about it for Saturday night. 🙂

BEA 2009…

May 26, 2009Leave a comment

After much chatter about BEA clothes with Lauren, Julia, Robyn and Jen, I think I’ve got it. Think. *peers into closet* I won’t be going in pajamas now. Whew.

Anyone else hear about Publishers Lunch TV? Or Publishers Lunch Junior? Apparently, PL people will be running around with Flip cams taking footage and broadcasting it live. Super cool! 🙂 Love this. I want to take a ton of pics and hopefully a vlog of some sort.

BEA starts on Thursday. Have I mentioned that? 😉 If anyone has last minute BEA advice, please share!

Gotta run into Manhattan for an hour tomorrow and then it’s back home for final BEA freak outs.

BEA clothes = fail

May 25, 2009Leave a comment

*All* of my potential BEA panel clothes are on my on my bed and the shoes are tossed on the floor. Everything! Is! Wrong! Ack! It’s too casual or too professional or too girly or too blah or just NO. I might be going to BEA in pajamas.

*takes calming breath and goes back to outfits*

Random things on a Friday

May 22, 20092 Comments

I’m so excited (read: nervous) about Book Expo America! But first, I’m doing the NYC Teen Author Carnival next Thursday from 4-6 pm with awesome authors including Lauren Barnholdt, Taylor Morris, PG Kain and more! Lauren and I, dubbed “Barnhart” by Editor K, are going to be veeery scandalous. We invite you to come join us! 🙂 I’ll be giving away: two copies of TAKE THE REINS, two copies of CHASING BLUE and two copies of BEHIND THE BIT. Plus, there will be signed postcards.

Back to BEA. There are so, so many people I finally get to meet! I’m trading numbers with people so we can text if things get crazy and we don’t end up running into each other. So, if I’m supposed to meet up with you at BEA and you want to trade cell numbers, shoot me yours. I think the convention center is going to be huge and the odds of just running into people seems slim. Meg Cabot already sent me her number so we can meet. 🙂 Kidding.

I’m going on Friday to pick up my badge and to track down Kaleb Nation at the Sourcebooks booth. I will attempt to ask for (read: steal) a copy of Kaleb’s Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse.

My panel with Robyn Schneider, Maureen Johnson, Julia DeVillers and Sarah Mlynowski is on Saturday morning and so many of my friends have said they’re coming. Thanks, guys! 🙂 It’ll make me less nervous to have friends in the audience in case I start to babble and/or embarrass myself during the panel. (Um, did you see the big names on my panel? Eeep…very intimidated!) The friends can then cause a disturbance so I can slink away in shame.

I’m going into Manhattan today to get a sparkly haircut for BEA. Going to the place of awesome–Soon Beauty Lab West. Love it there. I really want hot pink streaks for the summer, but…I won’t. Yet.

Keep fingers crossed that I do not get into any sort of trouble on this trip. It would be a first. I really can make it from home to the city and back without incident–I *know* I can! I’m still so jealous of the people who can listen to music and read or sleep (!) on the subway. I’m the girl clutching her HopStop instructions and checking off every stop like a total dork. The one time I tried to listen to music on my iPod on the subway? I almost ended up in Queens!!

Happy Friday!

Apartment pics, part one

May 21, 2009January 14, 20145 Comments

I’ve been promising updated apt pics, so here are a couple! It’s still a work in progress, but it’s sooo much fun to decorate. Still gotta get posters for walls, but have been so busy! More pics to come! 🙂

Madison Avenue bound

May 19, 2009Leave a comment

I’m having lunch with Agent A today, so I’m off to Madison Avenue to meet up with her. Since it’ll be the third (I think?) time I’ve gone to Trident, I will not get lost. 🙂 I never really got lost before, exactly, I just got slightly confused. But I have my explicit Google-mapped instructions from last time and think I’ve got it.

I should come back and be able to make The Announcement. 🙂

So long, weekend!

May 17, 20092 Comments

What a weekend! I edited all day Saturday then met up with fellow Aladdin MIXer Nova for dinner. We’d met before for, seriously, five seconds and finally had time to sit and chat. Nova’s awesome and her book DANI NOIR (Sept ’09) is killer. We’ll be going out again soon, I’m sure. 🙂

I came back to my apt and had a mini-celebration for the VIP papers that I got in the mail that day. I should be able to make a GIANT, HUGE, SUPERAWESOME announcement on my blog on Tuesday.

Today, I was supposed to meet Aly at 11 for brunch. I left early and grabbed the F. But then…announcements started that there was a 9/11 simulation going on and due to the smoke, my train was going to be rerouted to the G or stopped at W 4th St. or something very confusing.

*panic*

People on the train were mad.

Tourists were confused.

Then, people heard “smoke in the city” and thought there was a real fire.

You get the idea.

I hopped from the F, to the R, possibly to the A and the 4 (?) and ended up going to Queens. Then back to home. Then on the way to Manhattan. My train stopped underground for a looong while.

There were cops.

And nervous people. But I was determined to make it to brunch and Aly!

I finally used my subway skills (read: Roy’s NFT) and figured out how to make it to the correct stop.

And, guess what? Only 20 mins later. Bad, but not as bad as I’d feared. Take that, subway!

But Aly was super cool about it and we had a fab brunch–hello, Belgian waffles and sparkly drinks–then went shopping at Forever 21. Very amazing. I got the cutest earrings and necklace after consulting Aly–the Princess of Accessories. We had fun shopping and being girls. I made it back home without getting lost. WHEW. I’m so done with the subway till Tuesday.

Weekend plans

May 15, 20091 Comment

Friday at last! 🙂 I’ve been in my apartment for exactly a week now. Wow. Kinda shocking. I’m still not used to it.

As I mentioned, I’m veeerry excited to be hanging out with Nova on Saturday at a very cool cafe in Brooklyn. I went there before with Kassie and Roy and enjoyed the vibe. It’s super cute. But before I meet Nova, I plan to get up super early and:

* edit, edit, edit BEST ENEMIES to send to to EK on Monday
* drop off laundry and hope I get the right clothes back 😉
* order posters for room decoration
* something that’s not yet boring–clean the apt. It’s actually still fun because I keep going, “Oh, cool. Cleaning my apt.” That’ll wear off, I know.

I’m also dying to curl up with a superfantasticexciting ARC that I got. *sparkly ARC* I’ve been saving it as an end of revisions treat. Perhaps that’s why I’ve been working so much this week…

Sunday, I’ve got:

* the bunch with supercool A. I’m already hyped up for Belgian waffles and sparkly drinks.
* vlogging. I am without my tripod, so it’ll be interesting…it might come out very Blair Witch like.
* hopefully, if I have time, taking some pics of my fave local hang out spots.
* more editing and salivating over sparkly ARC.
* replying to fan mail. Sorry, guys! Responses are coming! Thank you, though, soo very much for emailing me. I appreciate it!
* researching local schools for visits in the fall.

Behind the Bit is out!

May 14, 2009January 14, 20143 Comments

BEHIND THE BIT, Canterwood Crest #3, went in stock on Amazon yesterday and at Barnes & Noble. I’m beyond excited to have three books out. Now that I’m in a new place, I have to go introduce myself to the staff at the local B&N and sign some stock. That’ll be fun! I love that I can walk there–it’s quite awesome.

I’m super busy finishing up edits on BEST ENEMIES (CC #5) and it’s my goal to have them done on Monday. I’ve been trying this new waking up at the most evil hour of 5am thing and it doesn’t suck. Too much. 🙂 I complain and grumble, but once I’m up I’m okay. I *do* get a lot done. And that’s I prob won’t be able to keep it up for long, but I’ll try it.

This weekend, I’m meeting up with two friends. One for brunch on Sunday at French Roast (sounds sooo yummy) and one for coffee here in my neighborhood. I’ll also be taking progress pics of the apartment and will post them. It’s getting pretty sparkly in here! Next thing: wall decorations. I’ve got links to some awesome posters, so this weekend I’ll measure, decide on some and order them. Very exciting.

Cable/DVR and Internet was installed yesterday (yay!) so I’m back online. Awesomeness. I was getting WiFi whereever I could: cafes, apt buildings…an old folk’s home. Yeah, shameless, I know. 🙂

Anyway, happy book birthday to BEHIND THE BIT!! 🙂 Cheers!

Here’s the blurb from Amazon:

It’s midwinter break and Sasha Silver has been invited to attend an exclusive equestrian clinic. Problem is, Callie, Heather, Alison, and Julia have also been invited. And after the way things ended at Canterwood’s Sweetheart Soiree, the line between friend and frenemy is thinner than ever.

NYC Teen Author Carnival

May 13, 20091 Comment

Thanks to JRA for letting me know about the NYC Teen Author Carnival. I’m participating along with:

Lauren Barnholdt – Author of Two-way Street
Website / Twitter

Sarah MacLean – Author of The Season
Website / Twitter

Robyn Schneider – Author of Better Than Yesterday
Website / Twitter

Beckie Weinheimer – Author of Converting Kate
Website /Twitter

Melissa Walker – Author of Lovestruck Summer
Website / Twitter

So excited to meet everyone! 🙂

Find us here:

NYC Teen Author Carnival
May 28th, 2009
4:00 – 6:00 PM