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Sandra Payne Coordinator of Young Adult Services 2 1 Do-Overs McCaughrean, Geraldine Of the books you’ve written, which one do you like best? Cyrano Members of the Seward I think It’s Kind of a Funny Story is my best book. I would Cabot, Meg Harcourt hope that the latest would be the best—that means I’m Avalon High Master swordsman, Park Branch Library’s getting better as a writer! HarperCollins brilliant wit, big nose true King Arthur’s court in Teen Advisory Group offer What made you or, rather, inspired you to start writing? modern-day Maryland Sachs, Marilyn When I was in 2nd grade, the school year started and in questions via Email to First Impressions addition to English and math, we had a special class called Geras, Adèle Roaring Brook “Writer’s Workshop.” They gave you a blank book to fi ll Ithaka Ned Vizzini, the author of A Pride and Prejudice and I just went off putting stories inside. I couldn’t believe Harcourt romantic switcheroo it was a class! Then, when I was 12, I read George Orwell’s lies A queen awaiting her It’s Kind of a Funny Story. essay “Such, Such Were the Joys” and it made me want husband’s return to write about my own life. Then, when I was a freshman How did you come up with the title It’s Kind of a Funny so unreal Dudes, in high school, I started reading an alternative newspaper Hunt, Scott, illustrator Story, and were there any other titles that you thought called New York Press and the fearlessness of the writers Twice Told Punks, of using? therein provided the fi nal spark. Dutton I thought of the title It’s Kind of a Funny Story while in the Chick Lit Castellucci, Cecil Original stories, Playas, shower, when I was about 1/2 of the way through writing What was it like to be published as a teenager? Do you Barnholdt, Lauren The Queen of Cool Ruby, Laura original art it. I had some other titles kicking around prior to that one Guys, Etc. have any advice for aspiring teen authors? Reality Chick Candlewick Good Girls but I thought it was really perfect. It was a phrase that I’d Bondoux, Anne-Laure There is an article online about my experience being Simon Pulse Libby’s swift transforma- HarperTempest Johnson, Maureen had in mind for a while—I think it’s something we all say. The Killer’s Tears published as a teenager (http://www.villagevoice.com/ Ally’s freshman year tion from snotty to sweet Audrey, going down in cell Devilish “Listen, it’s kind of a funny story...” The working title for It’s Delacorte arts/0646,wigginton,75019,12.html). It was an honor, on fi lm phone photo history Razorbill Kind of a Funny Story before I came up with the real title Paolo’s new life with his obviously, but it brought with it a lot of pressure. When Cohn, Rachel Selling their souls to a halfway through was I Am a Triumph. (I’m really ashamed parents’ murderer you start young, people tend to assume that you’re a Brian, Kate Two Steps Forward Schorr, Melissa cupcake-eating demon of it now, but I have to be honest.) fl ash-in-the-pan who won’t maintain your success. At the Sweet 16 Simon & Schuster Goy Crazy Bradman, Tony, editor same time, there are people who don’t like you very much Simon & Schuster NYC fashionista girl, Hyperion Klein, Lisa Did you decide to write It’s Kind of a Funny Story My Dad’s a Punk because you’ve done at 19 what took them 30 or 40 years. Teagan fi nally seeing the determined to hate LA Rachel falling for a super Ophelia because you spent time in a psychiatric hospital? Kingfi sher Then, there’s the added worry that if your books don’t sell, errors of her wrongs sexy Catholic boy Bloomsbury I wrote it because I went through an intense The ins and outs of people will say that you’re not very talented and you just Douglas, Lola Captivated by dark- moment—call it a crucible—in my life. I had dealt with this understanding your pops got the chance to publish because you were young. So Just My Opinion! True Confessions of a Shepard, Sara haired Hamlet depression for two years and when it fi nally came those are the negatives. But all in all, I’ve had an amazing Sweet 16 was about a Hollywood Starlet Pretty Little Liars to a head and I got into and out of the hospital, I fi nally Johnson, Henry and Paul life and the day I fi rst saw my name inNew York Press was snobby girl who comes Razorbill HarperTempest Levithan, David had something to write that was worth reading. Hoppe a day that pretty much fulfi lled all my dreams. (Everything to face who she really is Out of rehab, incognito Life-threatening text- Marly’s Ghost Travis and Freddy’s else has been gravy.) and hates what she sees. in Indiana messages from Dial Was this book painful for you to write? Adventures in Vegas As for aspiring teen authors: the key is, don’t write a An anonymous ghost beyond the grave Ben: Bah, humbug to It was diffi cult for me to writeIt’s Kind of a Funny Story Dutton book. Especially if you’re young, you’re not going to have appears on the night of Griffi n, Adele Valentine’s Day even though it only took about a month. For some reason, Unstoppable duo’s the discipline to follow through on a complete work of fi c- her Sweet 16 and shows My Almost Epic Summer Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa I remember a lot of sweating. It was a lot of waking up, journey to Sin City tion, which has to be on your mind all the time for months. her the truths she’s never Putnam’s Haters Lockhart, E. writing, driving myself, sweating, sleeping, waking, Also don’t write poetry or short stories, unless you’ve got seen and the sadness Irene, surviving trashy Little, Brown Fly on the Wall writing, listening to John Coltrane “A Love Supreme”... it Lyga, Barry one really good short story—there’s not much of a market she brings to other people. blogs and her nemesis’ ex Paski: face to face with Delacorte was a tough but ultimately cosmic experience. The Astonishing for that. Cut your teeth writing for newspapers and maga- After this wake-up call extreme culture shock Gretchen going Kafka in Book Excerpt: Adventures of Fanboy zines. The key here is this: she decides to make a Hollyer, Belinda, editor the boys’ locker room It’s so hard to talk when Where did you come up with the idea of Tentacles and & Goth Girl At the front of every newspaper and magazine in change. I enjoyed reading You’re the Best! Walde, Christine you want to kill yourself. Anchors? Houghton Miffl in America (sometimes on page 2 or 3) is something called a this book because it really Kingfi sher The Candy Darlings Just My Opinion! That’s above and beyond Even when I was a kid, I remember being conscious of Loves comics, hates masthead. The masthead lists the names and occupations makes you think about New friends, old friends, Graphia everything else, and it’s tasks piling up around me. Homework and chores and This book [Fly on the Wall] high school of all the writers/artists/editors who work for the paper. At what kind of person you loving, hating Friendship with a sugary not a mental complaint— phone calls. Then email came and then I became a profes- is about how a girl called the bottom of the masthead is an address called the slush have been and how it kiss it’s a physical thing, like sional writer and the tasks got more and more STUCK in Gretchen Yee wished to mail address. You will probably see it in tiny letters down affects the people around Myracle, Lauren it’s physically hard to me and I started thinking I could never break free—I called become a fl y on the wall there and really have to struggle to read it. This is the ad- you and yourself in the ttfn Wallington, Aury open your mouth and them “tentacles.” “Anchors” just came out as I was writing in the boys’ locker room. dress that unknown writers can send their work to! future. Amulet Pop! make the words come It’s Kind of a Funny Story as the opposite of tentacles. She has a crush on Titus Whatever you enjoy reading, you should send your Teen Reviewer: mad maddie, SnowAngel, Razorbill out. They don’t come out I didn’t spend a lot of time thinking up either of these and by becoming a fl y she writing to. If you like cars, send to Road and Track. If Sophie Chen zoegirl: im again Doing the deed with her smooth and in conjunc- terms—they just showed up in the book. hopes to learn more about you’ve got a crazy story about homeless people or music, Seward Park Branch best friend guys. I like this book tion with your brain the Did you like drawing maps when you were growing up? look for a local alternative paper in your city (like New York Library, Manhattan Pollack, Jenny because the story and the way normal people’s I LOVED maps when I was growing up. I didn’t draw any Press, it’ll come out every week and have listings for all Klepto Williams, Sheila confl ict is original. It was words do; they come out maps when I was in the psych hospital, though, but I DID the concerts/parties going on); you will, at least, get Cabot, Meg Viking Girls Most Likely also interesting too about in chunks as if from a do some art while I was there, visible at a response and get an idea how good your stuff is. How to Be Popular Friendship found among One World her life as a fl y. Gretchen crushed-ice dispenser; http://www.nedvizzini.com/writing/. From the ages of 6 HarperTempest fi lched fashions The geek, the beauty, the goes through many you stumble on them as – 12 I made maps just like Craig, and I never fi nished them It’s Kind of a Funny Story is published by Miramax Books/ One cherry super-big-gulp voice, the perfectionist signifi cant changes in they gather behind your just like Craig. Hyperion. mess=loserville Roberts, Laura Peyton the book both physically lower lip, So you just Queen B and mentally. keep quiet. Was writing this book a therapeutic experience for you? Visit Ned Vizzini online: www.nedvizzini.com Delacorte Teen Reviewer: Writing It’s Kind of a Funny Story was more than a thera- Cassie striving to reach Yu Shi Wang peutic experience. I would call it a transcendent experi- new social heights Seward Park Branch ence—I felt like it brought me to another place. I’m much, Library, Manhattan much better now. 2 3 Portman, Frank Vizzini, Ned God Only Hookups, Colasanti, Susane the fi rst chapter, emailed it to Rachel, then received the King Dork It’s Kind of a Funny Story When It Happens Members of the Jefferson second chapter from her and started writing the third. We Delacorte Miramax Knows Heartaches, Viking Market Branch Library didn’t plan anything ahead of time, so there were many, Solving his father’s Craig: stressed out and Cheripko, Jan True Love Slacker rock star falling many surprises. But that’s what kept it interesting. murder with Catcher determined to live for real sun moon stars rain for the class brainiac and the Tompkins Square in the Rye Front Street Barnes, Derrick Rachel: For instance, I continue to be surprised that David A college dropout The Making of Just My Opinion! Branch Library’s Teen can pull words like “happenstance” out of his bag of Just My Opinion! Get Me de-puzzling his life Dr. Truelove It is senior year for both tricks. It’s never not interesting, writing with him. If only This book [King Dork] Outta Simon Pulse Tobey and Sara. Since it is Advisory Groups offer he’d fi nally let me out of my isolation chamber! (Someone, reveals the life of Tom Cooney, Caroline B. Diego, the 16-year-old their last year in high please help me!) Henderson who is a This Place A Friend at Midnight online Dr. Feelgood school, Sara wants to fi nd questions via Email to typical high school dork. Fletcher, Christine Delacorte true love and Tobey wants You totally made the club scene of the Lower East Side He discovered his father’s Tallulah Falls Questioning her faith Cohn, Rachel and to make Sara fall in love Rachel Cohn and David and East Village come alive. What infl uenced your copy of The Catcher in the Bloomsbury when her brother is David Levithan with him. However, Sara decision to set the story in those neighborhoods? Rye. He also found a code Stranded in rural abandoned Nick & Norah’s started going out with Levithan, the co-authors Did you have to do any research? Have you ever gone written within the book. Tennessee Infi nite Playlist Dave so Tobey tried to to clubs like the ones featured in the book? As he tried to uncover the Just My Opinion! Knopf convince Sara that he’s of Nick & Norah’s Infi nite David: It was Rachel’s idea to have Nick and Norah both Turbulent love set to the secret code, he learned Garden, Nancy A little boy who goes to the one for her. This book be bridge-and-tunnel kids, and once Nick was in the beat of punk rock more about his father’s Endgame see his father and winds was interesting because Playlist. queercore scene, there weren’t many other places they death, school and girls. Harcourt up lost in an airport and the readers get to see could be. I mean, it would be interesting to imagine a Just My Opinion! How did you come up with the idea for the story and the This book was good Gray, doing time for wants to call home but events from both Tobey queercore club in Times Square, or the Upper East Side… idea for team-writing the book? because I also read The a violent crime thinks his sister can’t Nick and Norah are a and Sara’s point of view. but that didn’t quite strike me as true. So we started on Rachel: I was taking a walk around the reservoir in Central Catcher in the Rye in handle it. I like this book. modern-day love story. The characters were easy the Lower East Side and went from there. The clubs are Park and thinking about the Thin Man movies from the high school. It was easy Hernández, Jo Ann It is helpful to kids whose Nick, the emo-rock and to relate to because they based on real clubs, but we changed the identities to 1930s (which featured a husband-and-wife team of ban- for me to imagine Tom’s Yolanda parents are divorced. roll guitar player, meets face realistic confl icts protect the innocent. Or, in some cases, the guilty. tering socialite-detectives named Nick & Nora Charles) relationship with the book. The Throwaway Piece Teen Reviewer: Norah, the uptight, that everyday teenagers and I had the random thought that it would be fun to Teen Reviewer: Piñata Shana Henderson spunky music executive’s would. Music is such a huge part of the book. How did you update those names within a YA context. Only I fi gured I Yu Shi Wang Jewel, the state kid, West Farms Branch daughter, in what seems Teen Reviewer: decide what kind of music and bands that characters needed a guy to write the Nick perspective ’cuz what do I Seward Park Branch stuck in the system Library, Bronx to be a twist of fate. After Yu Shi Wang liked? Is the kind of music you like the same kind of know about being a guy? Right, nothing. David happened Library, Manhattan a whirlwind fi rst date Seward Park Branch music that Nick and Norah like? to be pretty much the only guy YA writer I knew at that Love, D. Anne Johnston, Julie they form a bond that will Library, Manhattan Rachel: Along with Nick & Norah, I think it’s safe to say time so I pitched the idea to him and he was game for it. Rosoff, Meg Semiprecious A Very Fine Line connect them forever. that David and I both live and breathe by music (and our While I had two character names and a basic premise in Just in Case Margaret K. McElderry Tundra The book is an array of Conway, Celeste iPods), so giving that quality to the characters was second mind, he actually had a story to develop for them, so it Wendy Lamb Trapped, tormented a Rosalind, discovering excitement, emotion and The Melting Season nature. Each song reference and band name was very worked out nicely and symbiotically from the very beginning. 15-year-old basketcase nd teased in the middle powers of clairvoyance music. The book’s two Delacorte carefully picked. We tried to use music references that running from fate of Texas authors, one writing from Giselle-on her toes, in would stand the test of time—either because the songs or What were your inspirations for the characters of Nick Lynch, Chris Nick’s point of view and love on the streets of NYC bands were that good…or just that bad. We gave up sev- and Norah? Are they similar to you? How did you come Simmons, Michael Lowell, Pamela Sins of the Fathers the other Norah’s, give eral references to songs and bands we thought nobody up with their names? Vandal Returnable Girl HarperTempest the book versatility and Dessen, Sarah would remember in the long run. David: For me, the inspiration for Nick was the moment Roaring Brook Marshall Cavendish Three friends, one cold a funny outlook on two Just Listen Book Excerpt: I realized he was the straight bass player in a queercore Will’s brother Jason- Ronnie, the foster home Catholic school winter sides of the situation. Viking And I can’t stand the What did you learn about each other and each other’s band. I have no idea where that particular idea came from, violently out of control reject I recommend this book Annabel meeting the guy thought of it. I see it all writing style while writing the book? but the moment I had it, I knew exactly where the book MacLean, Christine Kole to anyone looking for a with the coolest iPod ever unfolding and I know I David: Well, we certainly learned how well our styles would start—with him on stage, having an ex-related Sonnenblick, Jordan Meehl, Brian How It’s Done charming story of two have to do something — mixed together. meltdown. The name was of Rachel’s devising… Notes from the Midnight Out of Patience Flux young people falling Dower, Laura anything—to stop it. Driver Delacorte Grace breaking free from in love. Rewind So I, this random Rachel: I learned that David can write a nearly perfect, Rachel: The names Nick & Norah (with an “h”) were in- Scholastic Jake, cursed forever her strict father’s grasp Teen Reviewer: Point bassist in an average fully-formed chapter within a matter of hours (envy), and spired by Nick & Nora Charles from the Thin Man movies, The perils of killing a to stay in toilet town Kristie Lofano Hope, Lucas, Cady: queercore band, turn to that he is very particular about his shirts. and NOT by the Nick & Nora pajama brand (also inspired garden gnome Reinhardt, Dana Richmondtown Branch getting played in reverse this girl in fl annel who I by the Thin Man movies), which I’ve been asked a lot! I Pinder, Margaret A Brief Chapter in My Library, Staten Island don’t even know and say: Will you write another book together? Will there be a should be a good author and point out the Thin Man mov- Trottier, Maxine But I Don’t Want to Impossible Life Jenkins, A.M. “I know this is going sequel to Nick and Norah? ies were based on books by Dashiell Hammett but being a Three Songs for Courage Be a Movie Star Wendy Lamb Beating Heart to sound strange, but David: We were going to do a sequel, but then we realized bad author, I have never read those books. As for Norah’s Tundra Dutton Simone’s adopted present HarperCollins would you mind being my it had the same exact plot as Dreamgirls. So instead we character, she’s a little bit inspired by my sister Martha, Great car, beautiful Escaping the lap of luxury vs. her biological past Love and lust among the girlfriend for the next fi ve focused on another book – Naomi & Ely’s No Kiss List, who’s now 19, and is very cool and hip and music-ob- girlfriend, bent on living and the dead minutes?” which will be out in August. sessed, and Norah also has some of the brashness mixed revenge Van Draanen, Wendelin Wittlinger, Ellen with insecurity that I remember from being Norah’s age. Runaway Blind Faith Miller, Sarah Nick & Norah’s Infi nite Playlist is published by Alfred A. Trueman, Terry Knopf Simon & Schuster Inside the Mind of Knopf, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random What was the system for writing the book? Did you No Right Turn Holly on her own, Liz and Nathan coping Gideon Rayburn House, Inc. know what the other person was writing or was it a HarperTempest chronicling her survival together in the wake of St. Martin’s surprise when you got it? Were you ever shocked by Reclaiming his mojo loss Reading the thoughts Visit Rachel Cohn online: www.rachelcohn.com with a ‘76 Corvette Waite, Judy of the one you love what the other person wrote? Visit David Levithan online: www.davidlevithan.com Forbidden David: Rachel and I each sat in isolation booths, not Atheneum unlike those in 1950s quiz shows. But seriously…we were, Aching for contact in by happenstance, on separate coasts at the time. I wrote the outside world 4 5 This writing in this book is different from all your other Myers, Walter Dean Shaw, Tucker Liars Na, An Parents Charisse Campbell, books. Why? Street Love The Hookup Artist Wait for Me Dorfman, Joaquin Writing is such a pleasure for me I want to do it in as many Amistad/Harper Tempest HarperCollins Putnam’s from Hell Playing It Cool a member of the West New ways as possible. Also, I wanted to bring my best writing Damien & Junice: Lucas: fi nding a guy for Mina, creating the Random House Dalton, Annie and to this diffi cult situation. Star-crossed in Harlem everyone but himself illusion of perfection Problem-solver Sebastian Maria Dalton Brighton Branch Library’s swapping identities Invisible Threads If you had to pick your favorite character, who would it be? Just My Opinion! Shulman, Polly Nelson, Blake Teen Advisory Group, offers Delacorte I love Junice. Enthusiasm Paranoid Park Street Love is about two Headley, Justina Chen Carrie Ann and Naomi: Putnam’s Viking questions via Email to teenagers from two Nothing but the Truth fi nding their mothers, Were there any limitations when writing this story? Austen-crazed Ashleigh Skater-punk wannabe different worlds. Junice is Little, Brown fi nding themselves I wasn’t given any restrictions by my publisher. on a quest for romance hiding a grisly murder Walter Dean Myers, a dark-skinned girl about Patty: half Taiwanese,

sixteen years of age who half white shipped off Hurwin, Davida Wills Would you consider making this book into a play or Soto, Gary Steele, J. M. the author of Street Love. has to take on a motherly to summer camp Circle the Soul Softly movie? Accidental Love The Taker role at a young age. Her HarperCollins How can you or someone you know relate to the If anyone’s interested, give me a call! mother goes to jail for Harcourt Just My Opinion! Hyperion New school, glamorous character Damien? selling drugs. It’s up to Falling for a nerd with Aching to escape the life, recurring nightmares Patty Ho is a half Asian I can just look at my two sons, Michael and Chris. They Why did you decide to create a character like Junice? Rachel Davis (Department bad taste in socks confi nes of the SAT and half white teenager are both like Damien. I spend a lot of time at trials. I watched as a woman of Family Services) to MacCready, Robin Merrow who has a hard time was being sentenced and then led, sobbing, from the decide if she should stay Stone, Tanya Lee Buried accepting who she is. She What do you want readers to get from reading this novel? courtroom. But I also saw her children sitting with the with her grandmother. A Bad Boy Can Be Good Novels Dutton has a future planned out I want them to enjoy the book and to think about how spectators and my heart went out to them. In thinking Damien comes from a for a Girl Obsessive-compulsive for her by everyone but in Verse these young people make very important choices. what they would do, and how they would survive, family who has money. Wendy Lamb Claudia going full-throttle herself. She must Block, Francesca Lia Junice was created. His mother wants to A player’s conquests overcome being different Psyche in a Dress Why did you decide this story was going to be written protect him from the scrawled on the Marchetta, Melina from everyone else and Joanna Cotler in poem narrative format? Why is it that the fathers of the main characters (Junice streets and anybody who bathroom wall Looking for Alibrandi must learn to fi t comfort- Love myth updated The format made the book a more interesting challenge and Damien) aren’t mentioned a lot through the story? isn’t on her level. She Knopf ably in her own skin and for a new age for me. I love to work with language and see how many Damien’s mother is just more aggressive in what she feels that because they Vail, Rachel Nice guys, bad boys, escape the prejudices of ways I can express the inner feelings of my characters. wants for her son. Junice’s father has never been in have money, they should You, Maybe missing dads society. Patty has a hard Frost, Helen her life. let everyone know that he HarperCollins time characterizing who The Braid Chico and Sledge are troublemakers; are there any is the complete opposite. Josie, fi erce, independent Paul, Dominique she really is. This is a Francis Foster good qualities in them? Is it ironic that Damien likes a girl like Junice when he Damien is attracted to and falling for a senior The Possibility of problem most teens in Two sisters, two Chico and Sledge are all right. They’re challenging Damien can have a girl like Roxanne? Junice because he sees Firefl ies today’s society must countries, new lives because they have doubts about their own futures. I think young people have very diffi cult choices to make her pain and wants to Just My Opinion! Simon & Schuster overcome. I like this book Challenges are good, although sometimes troublesome. in their lives. Junice chooses to assume the burden of pro- console her. I really The book [You, Maybe] is Ellie’s mom taking a break because it helps teens, Herrick, Steven We need to respond in a positive manner to all the Chicos tecting her Melissa. Damien chooses to both understand enjoyed this book. It’s about an ordinary girl from parenting like myself, overcome By the River and Sledges in the world. what Junice is going through and to become part very different from how that spends her time society’s view of an ideal Front Street of that struggle. Walter Dean Myers talking about philosophy. Werlin, Nancy person. It teaches each Harry, yearning for What made you decide to write this story about Harlem? usually writes. The words Josie is an independent The Rules of Survival person to be comfortable a bigger life Two reasons: I’m from Harlem is the fi rst. The second is Thanks for your great questions! rhyme and it has this fl ow girl that doesn’t care Dial in their own skin and that Harlem, for me, represents all of the inner cities in that makes the story about what boys think Longing to escape the reach their ideal beauty. Hopkins, Ellen Book Excerpt: the country. come to life. This book about…well that was until brutality of a volatile This novel uses an insight Burned Their tribe is the more Street Love is published by Amistad-HarperTempest, an is great! she started hooking up mother view of a teenager who is Margaret K. McElderry familiar When people hear of Harlem, they think about gangs, imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Teen Reviewer: with the hottest senior at overcome with feeling Pattyn spinning out of We have seen them on killing and drama. How have you changed people’s Charisse Campbell her high school. What different and must learn control in Nevada every corner perspective in Street Love? Visit Walter Dean Myers online: West New Brighton fi rst began as a game Dead & how to empower herself. Of every city in America. I want people to think of Harlem as a community with real www.walterdeanmyersbooks.com Branch, Staten Island ended in love for Josie. I would recommend this Rylant, Cynthia Relatively They make us walk people who have feelings and emotions and the courage I like this book because book to every teenager Ludie’s Life Faster. They make us to deal with adversity. Namioka, Lensey of all the stages that Dead who wants to learn to Harcourt think of locked doors. Mismatch Josie had to pass through feel comfortable in his or Growing up in the Of differences we would A lot of teenagers my age love books that rhyme. Delacorte with her new boyfriend. Relatives her own skin and learn Appalachian mountains like to deny. This story has this fl ow; was it your intent to write Sue and Andy more than Teen Reviewer: Freymann-Weyr, Garret to accept who she or he the story this way or did it just pop out? just chopsticks and rice Mayte Gonzales Stay With Me really is. Smith, Kirsten Actually, I worked very hard to give the characters differ- Riverside Branch Library, Houghton Miffl in Teen Reviewer: The Geography of ent speech rhythms, and to vary the rhyme schemes. Nelson, Blake Manhattan Leila, shattered by Alexis Savaterre Girlhood Prom Anonymous suicide, falling for an Richmondtown Little, Brown What advice would you give readers who are experi- Viking older man Branch Library, The highs and the lows encing the same issues Damien and Junice are going Love! Dating! Prom! Staten Island of becoming a woman through? Stress! Hacker, Randi I received advice from a group of teenaged girls in Life As I Knew It Chicago. They told me that the young couple needed to James, Brian Simon Pulse understand their legal rights, the risks they’re taking, Dirty Liar Angelina, pre and post and to talk to family members when possible. PUSH stroke Benji: leaving everything behind, trying not to self-destruct 6 7 Jones, Kimberly K. Gallo, Donald R., editor Road Trip! Ehrenhaft, Daniel Harmon, Michael Do you have advice for teens that get dumped? Sand Dollar Summer What Are You Afraid Of? The After Life Skate Members of the Seward Well, I think the advice that Hassan gives Colin is excel- Behrens, Andy Margaret K. McElderry Candlewick Razorbill Knopf lent: Dumpees must never, ever, ever call the Dumpers, All the Way Recuperating on Maine’s 10 fabulous, fearsome, Will, the drunkard druggie On the run to fi nd a father Park Branch Library’s Teen no matter how badly every cell in your body screams out Dutton sandy shores phobias driving down South to talk to your Dumper. It’s like picking a scab: It will only Driving 900 miles to Hemphill, Helen Advisory Group offer slow the healing process, and it could possibly lead to hookup MacCullough, Carolyn Just My Opinion! Gallo, Donald R., editor Long Gone Daddy questions via Email to John infection. Drawing the Ocean Destination Unexpected Front Street Also, I think it is important to remember that in This book [What Are You Budhos, Marina Deborah Brodie Candlewick Harlan Q, his dad, the long run—in the very, very, very long run—getting Afraid Of?] contains Ask Me No Questions Green, the author of An Haunted by the death Excursions of discovery a body, $50,000 dumped can be a good thing. I had an ex-girlfriend stories about phobias. Atheneum of her twin brother inside and out once who told me something quite smart right after she From a boy who couldn’t Nadira’s father arrested Abundance of Katherines. Lanagan, Margo dumped me. She said, “John, every relationship you ever speak to an audience to a and detained at the Mass, Wendy Green, John White Time have is going to end in break-up. Except one.” Seen in girl who just won’t gain border Not a question, just a note: we’re jealous of your ana- Jeremy Fink and the weight. All these stories An Abundance of EOS gram skills. Here’s a question: do you practice ana- that context, you can always just say, “Well, I guess that Meaning of Life Katherines Worlds surreal, fantastic, wasn’t the one.” are portrayed by teenage Book Excerpt: gramming now that you’ve done writing An Abundance Little, Brown Dutton dark, hopeful characters and are well I remember when we fi rst of Katherines? Did you write your own anagrams for One locked box, one Colin, dumped 19 times What new book are you working on? written. Interesting book. arrived at the airport in Katherines yourself? (TWO questions!) long-kept secret and on the road to Mourlevat, Jean-Claude I don’t know what it’s called yet even though I’m about Teen Reviewer: New York, how tight my I’m really not very good at anagramming, but because I recovery The Pull of the Ocean two thirds fi nished with it, but my new book is about a girl Rosa Patricia Mateo mother’s hand felt in wanted the character in the book to be ridiculously good Oates, Joyce Carol Delacorte who disappears after an all-night adventure, and the guy Kingsbridge Branch mine. How her mouth at it, I had to practice a lot. And I really believed that when After the Wreck, I Picked Book Excerpt: 7 brothers escaping a who tries to track her down across the country. Library, Bronx became stiff when the I fi nished the book, I would never anagram ever again Myself Up, Spread My But mostly for those violent father uniformed man split open under any circumstances ever. And then, while I was on Wings, and Flew Away fourteen hours, he read Will any of your books be made into movies? Which Goobie, Beth the packing tape around tour in Iowa, someone told me that Britney Spears ana- HarperTempest and reread Katherine Reisz, Kristopher book (in your opinion) would make the best movie? The Dreams Where the our suitcase and plunged grams to Presbyterians. And I immediately got back into Therapy, nightmares, XIX’s inscription: Tripping to Somewhere Looking for Alaska is being developed as a movie by Losers Go his hands into her anagramming, because sometimes it is just so awesome. and a new appreciation Simon Pulse Paramount with Josh Schwartz (who created “The O.C.”) Orca underwear and saris, for painkillers Col, Outcasts leaving writing and directing. It’s been a lot of fun to work with Injuring herself to escape making us feel dirty What’s your favorite novel that you’ve written? Here’s to all the places we everything they know them on the movie, and I’m hopeful that they’ll make it abuse inside. Abba’s leg was I hate to choose between the two, because then the other Runyon, Brent went. And all the places behind and that it will be good. But I still think Katherines could jiggling a little, which is one will be all sad, and the whole thing will be sort of Velve- Maybe we’ll go. And here’s be a hilarious movie—we’ll see. Heggum, Lisa, editor what it does when he’s teen Rabbit-ey. So I’ll say what my parents always told my Knopf me, whispering again Smith, Sherri L. All Sleek and Skimming nervous. Even then we brother and me: I love them both—equally but different. Brian’s grief pushed into and again and again Sparrow What are some of your favorite books? Orca were afraid because we the passenger seat and again: Delacorte Oh, I have so many. Just a few I think my readers might Stories funny, playful, knew we were going to What inspired you to write An Abundance of Katherines? ilovevou. Kendall: orphaned, like: The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Euginedes; The nasty, heartbreaking stay past the date on the Two things, really: I wanted to write about a guy who is Tolan, Stephanie S. yrs forever, alone, on the road Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael little blue stamp of the going through an extreme case of that horrible process Listen! K-a-t-h-e- r-i-n-e Chabon; The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak; Their Eyes Hoffmann, Kerry Cohen tourist visa in our wherein we realize that we are not quite so unique as we HarperCollins Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston; Song of Easy passports. Everyone does always hoped (that is, real people are more like Weasleys Friendship and healing Eventually, he found his To Be Solomon, by Toni Morrison; The Realm of Possibility, Simon & Schuster it. You buy a fake social than Potters). And also, I wanted to write a book with a from a four-legged friend bed too comfortable for by David Levithan; and All the King’s Men, by Robert Pain cooled by an older security number for a few Continued Muslim guy who was religious but generally pretty nor- his state of mind, so he Penn Warren. Boy, that’s a weird list. man’s touch hundred dollars and then Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia mal, like all the Muslim guys I know. lay down on his back, his you can work. A lot of the Wolfcry Risky legs sprawled across the Is John Green your real name? Lynn, Tracy Bangladeshis here are Delacorte Who is Alaska based on? carpet. He anagrammed Yes. If I were to come up with a pseudonym, I would think Business Rx illegal, they say. Some A shapeshifter’s dilemma: As a character, she is based on a lot of people I knew in “yrs forever” until he of something more creative. Cart, Michael, editor Simon Pulse get lucky and win the duty vs. love high school and since (and, to an extent, my high-school found one he liked: sorry Rush Hour, Volume 4, From the medicine Diversity Lottery so they self). But the relationship that Pudge has with Alaska—the fever. And then he lay Where do you live (we will not stalk you)? Reckless cabinet to the street can stay. Avi way he romanticizes her and sees her as this larger-than- there in his fever of sorry I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Delacorte Crispin: at the Edge of life force of nature—is very much based on the way I felt and repeated the now Giving in to the Rees, Celia Cooney, Caroline B. the World about this one girl in high school. But I can’t tell you her memorized note in his Will you give us all $100? temptation The Wish House Hit The Road Hyperion name, because she still doesn’t know I ever had a crush head and wanted to cry, That question is grammatically ambiguous. Are you ask- Candlewick Delacorte Learning who he is and on her, and I’m keeping it that way. but instead he only felt ing whether I will give each of you $100, or are you asking First fl ing, fi rst love, On the lam with granny who to trust this aching behind his whether I will you all, as a collective, a total of $100? fi rst death and her friends Can you write a book about medieval times? solar plexus. Crying adds In either case, the answer is no. But it’s not that I don’t Brian, Kate I might, but I don’t think I will in the near future. I really something: crying is you, love you! It’s just like my mom always used to say when Vrettos, Adrienne Maria Cooper, Patrick Private admire people who write about medieval times, because 1. it plus tears. But the feeling I asked her for fi ve dollars: “If I give you fi ve dollars, how Skin I Is Someone Else Simon Pulse is really hard to remember how to spell medieval, and 2. you Colin had was some are you going to learn what fi ve dollars is worth?” It never Margaret K. McElderry Delacorte Reed, attending boarding have to do so much research, and 3. you have to constantly horrible opposite of even crossed my mind to ask for $100. But I guess this is Donnie’s sister fading A journey abroad to fi nd school, surviving mean remember that no one in medieval times ever took baths crying. It was you, minus New York. Everything’s more expensive here. away to nothing a lost brother girls or brushed their teeth, so everything smelled absolutely something. He kept rancid. Doing that much research, and thinking about their Zarr, Sara thinking about one teeth—it’s too much for me at this point in my writing life. Thanks for the great questions—I feel fortunate to have Story of a Girl word—forever—and felt such smart and thoughtful and funny readers. Little, Brown the burning ache just Have you been dumped 19 times like Colin in An Suffering from rumors beneath his rib cage. It Abundance of Katherines? An Abundance of Katherines is published by Dutton Books of slutdom hurt like the worst ass- I’ve been dumped way, way, way more times than Colin. a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. kicking he’d ever gotten. (53, to be exact.) But I was never dumped by a Katherine. And he’d gotten plenty. Or 19 people of any name, actually, although there were Visit John Green online: www.sparksfl yup.com 8 9 several Marys. Colfer, Eoin Scott, Manda Wilcox, Mary Masyga, Mark This book [Tyrell] is about Did you grow up like Tyrell did? Is that where you get Artemis Fowl: Boudica Backstage Pass Peeps a boy named Tyrell. His Members of the Wakefi eld your ideas? The Lost Colony Bantam Dell Delacorte Abrams Image father got sent to jail No, I didn’t grow up anything like Tyrell. I’m from the Miramax Brutal Celtic queen Star-struck sisters, top- Living the sweet life, because he was selling Branch Library’s Teen Bronx, but I didn’t have things so rough. The idea for Ancient secrets of preparing for war rated sitcom, tabloids the sugar-coated truth drugs and now it’s up to Tyrell came from my job as a social worker. I used to work the fairy world him to be a man and care Advisory Group offer with families and teenagers who were going through Shusterman, Neal Pratchett, Terry for his family but he don’t questions via Email to Coe really hard times. Some of the teens were in gangs or Haddix, Margaret Duckling Ugly What’s So Johnny and the Dead wanna sell drugs and end used drugs and alcohol. Some of them had parents who Peterson Dutton Funny? HarperCollins up like his father so he Booth the author of Tyrell. abused or neglected them. Basically, the whole family Among the Free The chance to trade Saving the cemetery tries things like swiping needed help. I saw a lot of boys who were already con- Banks, Steven Simon & Schuster in your face with the dearly departed Metro Cards for people sidered to be the man of the house by their mother even King of the Creeps Do you take people you know and just change the Luke, overthrowing for a dollar just to get though they were only fourteen or fi fteen years old. So I Knopf names to make your characters? They’re so real! the population police Skurzynski, Gloria Shields, Gillian food to eat and his mom wrote Tyrell because I wanted to imagine what it would be Looks like Bob Dylan, Thanks for saying my characters are real, but no, I don’t The Choice The Actual Real Reality and little bro are in a like to be fi fteen years old and responsible for providing only knows one chord base them on real people. I don’t think my friends would Jacques, Brian Atheneum of Jennifer James roach-infested motel. like that very much! Sometimes I make my characters do for your mother and little brother. Especially when you still Voyage of Slaves Stay in paradise or battle Katherine Tegen I like the book because had your own personal problems to deal with. I wanted to Caires, Steven little things that are based on real people, though. For ex- Philomel a dictator 1 heroine, 1 prize, 1000 it’s good to read about see what a typical boy would do if he had all that pressure The Joys of Engrish ample, when I was a teenager, a friend of mine had a little A boy and his dog fi ghting complications how a young boy is on him and had only himself to count on. Tarcher/Penguin Virgin Mary statue in his car and he used to turn it around evil on the high seas Sniegoski, Tom struggling for his family. Lost in translation??? whenever he kissed his girlfriend. So I took that little bit Sleeper Code Voigt, Cynthia Teen Reviewer: and used it to add some reality to Novisha’s personality. Is there a character you would like to write more about? Manning, Sarra Razorbill Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Jasmine Howard Does Tyrell’s girlfriend get her own book? Carney, Charles But for the most part, I just make my characters French Kiss Teenager or assassin, Whatcha Gonna Do? Wakefi eld Branch Library, Well, I’m planning to write a sequel to Tyrell as soon as The Acme Catalog up from scratch. That’s part of the fun of being a fi ction Speak two minds, one body Atheneum Bronx I’m fi nished writing my second novel,Kendra . I’m not sure Chronicle writer. You can create people and then follow them around Falling in love with Mikey + Margalo = 9th what’s going to happen in the next Tyrell book, but I do Fake holes, giant to see what they’re going to do next! It’s like playing The a guy every girl wants Stroud, Jonathan grade mischief WOW! This book [Tyrell] is know his father will be released from prison, so we will magnets, iron birdseed Sims, only much, much better! Ptolemy’s Gate great. It’s one of the best fi nally get to meet his “pops.” I’m not sure about writing and more McCaffrey, Anne and Miramax books I’ve read, so far. How did you make Tyrell speak and act like a real guy? a Novisha book or a Jasmine book. Right now I don’t have Todd McCaffrey Three destinies converge Word on The part I liked most any ideas for what their own books would be about, but Carney, Jeff He’s like all the guys at my school, but he’s not real. Dragon’s Fire about this book was that you never know! The Adventures of the Street To be honest, I was kind of worried about writing a whole Del Rey Westerfeld, Scott Tyrell sacrifi ced his Michael MacInnes Booth, Coe book from the point of view of a boy. I kept asking myself, Defending Pern from Blue Noon freedom to support his Why did you make virginity such a big deal for Tyrell Farrar Straus and Giroux Tyrell “What do I know about being a guy?” But once I started destruction EOS family and he knows how and his girlfriend? Instead of sex, could it have been Mucking with the wrong PUSH writing the fi rst chapter, this boy’s voice just started fl ow- Showdown with to deal with his struggle. drugs or something? side of authority Stuck in a shelter, ing from me and it was really kind of fun! It’s interesting Nix, Garth the Farklings Teen Reviewer: I never really planned to make virginity a big issue in this aching for a break, trying to see the world from the perspective of the op- Sir Thursday Jose Ventura book; it just kind of happened on its own. I guess by hav- Charles B. Anderson keeping it legit posite sex. Immediately after writing the fi rst page, I really Scholastic Westerfeld, Scott Bronx Library Center, ing Novisha decide not to have sex with Tyrell, it showed Design Company and started to like Tyrell and I wanted to fi gure out what he Fighting a war before Specials Bronx that he respected her and really wanted to be with her, Michael Nelson was all about. Sometimes I would write a scene and have returning to earth Simon Pulse Just My Opinion! even if it meant waiting until she was ready. And I wanted Fluffy Humpy Poopy to throw it away because I was getting in Tyrell’s way and Keeping Uglies down This book [Tyrell] is about Bowsher, Melodie to show that there are different kinds of girls in his life and Puppy trying to solve his problems in my own “girly” way. Things Novik, Naomi and Pretties stupid a boy named Tyrell. He is My Lost and Found Life Book Excerpt: each one is a challenge for him! Abrams Image worked out a whole lot better when I tapped into my “in- His Majesty’s Dragon forced to become a man Bloomsbury My seven-year-old Snarky, snoopy, campy, ner guy” and let him solve things in his own unique style. Del Rey Just My Opinion! at a young age. Since his Ashley: desperate and brother, Troy, is playing Did you try writing Tyrell without the slang and cursing? canines mom doesn’t give a damn A British soldier’s This book [Specials] is about to lose everything with my basketball out in How could I get my own stories published? I write a Do you think it would have been as good a book? about him or his little precious bounty about Tally and how she front of the building, lot in my journal, but don’t know what to do after that. I didn’t really think about the language before I started Defoe, Gideon brother and his father is now, a special kind of Going, K.L. throwing it up against the If you’re in middle school or high school, I think you writing Tyrell. I just wanted to write about a guy, and my The Pirates! (who really cares) is in Reeve, Philip like a secret agent for her Saint Iggy wall and catching it like should read everything you can get your hands on and goal was for him to be as “real” as possible. I was kind of Vintage jail. My favorite part of Infernal Devices city. One of her friends Harcourt it’s summer out here. My write for fun. These are the years where you can get better surprised when I wrote the fi rst sentence and he cursed Kicking arse in the sea the book is when he fi nds EOS was kidnapped and she Kicked out of high school, moms is outside too, at writing and fi nd out exactly what kind of writing you because I don’t curse at all. But it seemed to be part of shanty life out that his girlfriend Desire for adventure not only has to save him, surviving on the streets leaning against a van, want to do. There are places on the Internet especially his personality, so I went with it. As for the slang, again, it wasn’t a virgin and he leads to tragedy but she also gets rid of an smoking with some other designed for teenagers where you can publish short work, just seemed like it was natural for him to speak that way. Garza, Mario thought that once they organization threatening McDonald, Janet woman. All our stuff is too. Another thing you can think about now is creating a I didn’t want to change him because then he wouldn’t Stuff on My Cat got married that he would Richardson, V. A. the cities around the Harlem Hustle packed up in one tore up blog or a MySpace page to publish your short stories and sound authentic. Actually, I wanted each character to have Chronicle be the only one who The Moneylender’s world. I thought this book Frances Foster black suitcase and two poetry. his or her own unique way of speaking. A fi erce frenzy of frocked would have been with her. Daughter was extremely good Eric, abandoned and garbage bags on the If you’re really serious about being published, the I think it’s possible to write a good book without slang felines Teen Reviewer: Bloomsbury and addicting. I kept on struggling for hip-hop ground by my moms. I fi rst thing I recommend is learning as much as possible and cursing, of course, but if Tyrell didn’t speak that way Adam and Jade torn Tamar Charles stardom wanna ask her if they he would have been an entirely different person. The way reading it on and on. Korman, Gordon about the publishing world. Figure out who publishes between loyalty and love Wakefi eld Branch Library, found us a place, but I he speaks refl ects how he was raised, where he grew up, I loved every bit of it. It Born to Rock the kind of writing you do and how you should go about Bronx Pagliarulo, Antonio just glare at her and walk and how he feels about everything. And it’s just who he is! was amazing!!!!!!!! My Hyperion contacting magazine editors. If you want to have a book A Different Kind of Heat by without saying a word. whole class is waiting Leo hanging with his published, you need to write the whole thing fi rst. Then Delacorte I don’t got nothing to say Tyrell is published by Push, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. to read this book! Yeah! punk rock pop you should get a literary agent to help fi nd the right editor Luz, consumed by rage, to her no more. Teen Reviewer: for you. It can be a long process sometimes, so you need Ilham Elkatani bent on revenge to be patient. But if you’ve worked hard on being the best Visit Coe Booth online: www.coebooth.com Bronx Library Center, writer you can be, your writing will hopefully fi nd a home Bronx somewhere! 10 11 Sitomer, Alan Lawrence Brockmeier, Kevin Fforde, Jasper Just My Opinion! Sorrells, Walter Carey, Lisa Hyland, M. J. 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