The second NYC Teen Author Festival starts tomorrow March 15, 2010! I couldn’t be at last year’s (Chloe was only a few weeks old so I’m super excited to be at this one. I’ll be speaking on Monday 3/15 on the Writing Process panel and I’ll also be at the Books of Wonder signing from 3:30-4:15. And I’ll be reading from Gimme a Call on April 14.

Can you believe this insane lineup?

Hope to see you there!

2010 NYC Teen Author Festival

Monday, 3/15 (NYPL, Tompkins Square Branch, 331 East 10th Street, 6pm):

First Draft to Final Draft – Talking About the Writing Process

featuring:
Gayle Forman
Daphne Grab
Carolyn Mackler
Sarah Mlynowski
Blake Nelson
Marie Rutkoski
Eliot Schrefer
Natalie Standiford

Tuesday, 3/16 (Barnes & Noble Tribeca, 97 Warren Street, 7pm):

Getting Inside the Mind of a Teen Boy

featuring:
Nick Burd
Matt de la Pena
Gordon Korman
David Levithan
Barry Lyga
Michael Northrop
Jon Skovron
Jake Wizner

Wednesday, 3/17 (South Court, 42nd Street NYPL, 6pm):

The Treasure Map to Going Bovine with Will Grayson(s)
(or, an evening of readers’ theater)

featuring:
Libba Bray
John Green
David Levithan
E. Lockhart

Thursday, 3/18 (Five Borough Read, 10am):

Authors read to high school students and the public in libraries across the city.

Manhattan:

Countee Cullen Branch, NYPL, 104 W 136th St

Donna Freitas
Eliot Schrefer
Rachel Vail
Lynn Weingarten
Ebony Wilkins

Jefferson Market Branch, NYPL, 425 6th Ave


Gabe Guarente
Carla Jablonksi
Kristen Kemp
Barry Lyga
Samantha Schutz

Muhlenburg Branch, NYPL, 209 W 23rd St

Alice Hoffman
Emma McLaughlin
Lauren McLaughlin
Courtney Sheinmel
Jennifer Smith

Grand Central Branch, NYPL, 135 East 46th Street (between Lexington & Third Aves.)

Angie Frazier
Aimee Friedman
Robin MacCready
Sarah Maclean
Amanda Marrone

Seward Park Branch, NYPL, 192 East Broadway

Cathleen Bell
Susane Colasanti
Matt De La Pena
Gayle Forman
Daphne Grab

Yorkville Branch, NYPL,, 222 East 79th St

Micol Ostow
Robin Palmer
Shani Petroff
Robyn Schneider
Abby Sher
Jake Wizner
Michelle Zink

Brooklyn:

Central Branch, Brooklyn Public Library, Dweck Auditorim, 10 Grand Army Plaza

Emily Horner
Melissa Kantor
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Matthue Roth
Siobhan Vivian
Adrienne Maria Vrettos
Melissa Walker
Robin Wasserman

Bronx:

Bronx Library Center, NYPL, 310 East Kingsbridge Road

Coe Booth
Sarah Darer Littman
Neesha Meminger
Maryrose Wood

Queens:

Broadway Branch, QPL, 40-20 Broadway, Long Island City

Jessica Blank
Sarah Burningham
Heather Duffy-Stone
Marianne Mancusi
Elizabeth Scott

Staten Island:

West New Brighton Branch, NYPL, 976 Castleon Avenue

Elizabeth Eulberg
David Levithan
Michael Northrop
Kieran Scott

Thursday Evening, 3/18 (Books of Wonder, 18 W 18th St, 6-8pm):

Sourcebooks Fire Launch Party

featuring authors Lisa Brown, Anne Eliot Crompton, Helen Ellis, Adele Griffin,
AND
the rocking tunes of Tiger Beat!  (with Libba Bray, Dan Ehrenhaft, Barnabas Miller, and Natalie Standiford)

Friday, 3/19 (South Court, 42nd Street, 2-5 and 6-8:30)

NYC Teen Author Festival Symposium

Afternoon

2:00  Introduction

2:10 – 3:00:  Using Genre to Tell the True Story of Adolescence

featuring:
Judy Blundell
Sarah Beth Durst
Lauren McLaughlin
Diana Peterfreund
Sara Shepard
Maggie Stiefvater
Robin Wasserman

3:00 – 3:30: Making a First Impression – 2010 Debut Authors

featuring:
Angie Frazier
Emily Horner
Alyssa Sheinmel
Ebony Wilkins

3:30 -  4:15:  Grief, Loss, and the YA Novel

featuring:
Alexandra Bullen
Heather Duffy-Stone
Donna Freitas
Alice Hoffman
Sarah Darer Littman
Lisa Ann Sandell
Samantha Schutz

4:15 – 5:   The Boy You Can’t Have

featuring:
Susane Colasanti
Elizabeth Eulberg
Robin Palmer
Elizabeth Scott
Melissa Walker
Maryrose Wood

5-6:  Break

Evening

6:00 – A Tribute to Regina Hayes

featuring:
Sarah Dessen
Joy Peskin
Jacqueline Woodson

6:45 – 8:30:  What it Feels Like for a Girl – Writing in a Teen Girl’s Voice

featuring:
Jessica Blank
Eireann Corrigan
Sarah Dessen
Jenny Han
Terra Elan McVoy
Siobhan Vivian
Adrienne Maria Vrettos
Jacqueline Woodson

Saturday, 3/20 (Bartos Forum, 42nd Street, 1pm):

Stuff for the Teen Age Event
Come check out Stuff for the Teen Age, The New York Public Library’s list of the hottest books, movies, music, and video games from 2009. Talk with your favorite authors. Rock out to your favorite songs. Have fun. Hear a very special presentation from keynote speaker, Libba Bray, the author of  Going Bovine.

Sunday afternoon:
Books of Wonder Signing (18 W 18th St, 2-5:45)

NOTE:  Because of the number of authors, signings will be in shifts. Below is the approximate schedule, which is subject to change

2:00-2:45
Alma Alexander
Nora Baskin
Cathleen Davitt Bell
Judy Blundell
Libba Bray
Coe Booth
Elise Broach
Alexandra Bullen
Nick Burd
Sarah Burningham
Susane Colasanti
Matt De La Pena
Violet Haberdasher
Maggie Stiefvater
Robin Wasserman

2:45-3:30
Tom Dolby
Heather Duffy-Stone
Sarah Beth Durst
Elizabeth Eulberg
Gayle Forman
Aimee Friedman
Jenny Han
Alice Hoffman
Carla Jablonksi
Melissa Kantor
Kristen Kemp
Michelle Knudsen
Peter Lerangis
David Levithan

3:30-4:15
Sarah Darer Littman
Barry Lyga
Robin MacCready
Carolyn Mackler
Sarah Maclean
Marianne Mancusi
Amanda Marrone
Wendy Mass
Lauren McLaughlin
Neesha Meminger
Sarah Mlynowski
Michael Northrop
Robin Palmer

4:15-5:00
Diana Peterfreund
Shani Petroff
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Matthue Roth
Marie Rutkoski
Lisa Ann Sandell
Samantha Schutz
Elizabeth Scott
Kieran Scott
Courtney Sheinmel
Sara Shepard
Abby Sher
Jon Skovron

5:00-5:45
Jennifer Smith
Natalie Standiford
Rachel Vail
David Van Etten
Siobhan Vivian
Adrienne Maria Vrettos
Melissa Walker
Suzanne Weyn
Lynn Weingarten
Martin Wilson
Jake Wizner
Maryrose Wood
Michelle Zink

BONUS EVENTS:

Also keep in mind…

Before the Festival:

March 11: Blake Nelson and the Care Bears on Fire at Barnes & Noble, Union Square, 33 E 17th St, 7pm, for a night of reading and rock

After the Festival:

April 14: The Next Teen Author Reading Night, 6-7:30 at the Jefferson Market Branch of NYPL, 425 6th Ave, at 10th St.

Helen Ellis, The Turning
David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, Dedication
Sarah Mlynowski, Gimme a Call
Marie Rutkoski, The Celestial Globe
Elizabeth Scott, The Unwritten Rule
Rachel Vail, Brilliant
Adrienne Maria Vrettos, The Exile of Gigi Lane

Wow. Sorry for not blogging in, um, almost a year. I have two excuses. Decent ones, I swear!

First: the baby thing.

Second: I moved. Again. For anyone who’s counting, that’s two moves in one year. If you need boxes, I am your girl.

When I wasn’t packing, unpacking or changing diapers, I was editing and writing. (And watching Jersey Shore. But don’t tell anyone that, ‘kay?.)

What was I editing: GIMME A CALL. It comes out  April 27th.

What it’s about:

Devi is having a bad day: Her boyfriend broke up with her and she dropped her cell phone into the fountain at the mall.

Now it only calls one number.
Her number.
At age 14, three years ago.

Once Devi gets over the shock, she realizes that she’s been given an awesome gift. She can convince her younger self to fix all her mistakes! Or can she?

The book is told from two perspectives: Freshman Devi and Senior Devi, so you get to see both points of view. And it was SO MUCH FUN to write. I got to think about all the things I would do differently…and all the things I would want to know about the future, if I could. What would you want to know? What would you tell?

These days I’m writing a totally different kind of book. It’s called TEN THINGS WE DID (and probably shouldn’t have) and it’s about two teens who move into together when both their parents move away. Chaos ensues. The content is a lot older than my other teen stuff. Much racier. It’s kind of a cross between my YA and my chick lit. The first draft will hopefully, pretty please, be done next week. Fingers crossed. (For luck or for lying, you wonder? Good question.)

In this weeks news: PARTIES & POTIONS is now out in paperback!

Check out the series branding on top: a magic in manhattan novel. Cute, huh?

Eventually the earlier books will be reprinted with matching tops so that will be cool.

Also, the first two chaps of GIMME A CALL are in the back of the book so you can read it and get a sneak peek.

Oh! And I am going to have a live chat this Wednesday the 17th at 8 EST. In the events section of my site. Come by!

But…

Please do not pretend to be me in the chat. It’s seriously creepy.

Okay then. That’s it for today. Since I am not moving in the near future (I hope) I will try to write more often.

Hugs & wishes,

Sarah

Hi all!

Wanted to let you know that How to Be Bad is now out in paperback. Yup, it’s out and the new cover is ADORABLE. Also included in the paperback is the story of how the book came about, a BAD girl quiz and the How to Be Bad Oh-So-Excellent playlist.

Check out the great widget above. If you wanna, you can also grab the widget and share it on Facebook, or Myspace or anywhere you’d like. Watch the videos on the widget! You will see footage of me getting a speeding ticket!

There is another awesome video that Emily made but I am waiting until later this week to post it. Don’t want to overload you all in one day.

Now go be bad!
xxx
Sarah

Hi all,

It’s your chance to vote in the Children’s Choice Book Awards! And I KNOW you want to vote for Lauren Myracle’s THIRTEEN in the 5-6 category! Why? Well, besides being an awesome book, the main character Winnie is reading Bras & Broomsticks in it! Yup! How cool is that?

So please go vote right here.

If you haven’t read THIRTEEN already, you should. It’s funny and sweet and one of my favorites. You can start with ELEVEN and then TWELVE and then read THIRTEEN or just go straight to THIRTEEN. And…I happen to know there’s going to be a FOURTEEN soon. Yup. And because I’m insanely lucky, I’m even going to get to read it early. It should be hitting my inbox this week actually… Right, Lauren???

xxx

Sarah

Sorry it’s been so long since my last post…but I’ve been very busy with my new baby!

Yup, Chloe was born on March 3rd and she’s doing great. She’s sleeping at the moment, so I’ll  write fast…

For those of you who remember Lauren Myracle’s Halloween challenge (which I failed), I’ve finally changed diapers. Many, many diapers. I’d put up a picture as proof, but I think I’ll leave it to your imagination. (And I can’t imagine Chloe would appreciate having her behind on the net). Truthfully, the diaper thing is not as bad as I thought it would be. After being a novelist for eight years–a job that includes constant rewriting, long-term planning, and never completing a project until three years later, it’s refreshing to have a task that can be completed in two minutes. First dirty, now clean!

P.S. I will no longer be updating the livejournal blog–If you’re on livejournal, you can follow this blog there: http://smlynowski.livejournal.com

A second piece of happy news: GIMME A CALL, the novel I just finished writing for Random House, has just been optioned by Paramount! Meaning…it might become one day become a movie. Hopefully.  You can read about it the deal in Variety, right here:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118001557.html?categoryId=2431&cs=1

Andy Fickman, the fab director of Race to Witch Mountain is attached to direct and produce.

I will let you guys know more as soon as I do! And of course, if I hear anything about auditions I’ll post the info here. But I probably will not here anything about them. Sorry, that’s how Hollywood works!

Baby waking up…gotta run!

xxx

Sarah (or Mummy as I now refer to myself. In the third person. Constantly.)

Hi all,

Just a reminder that the deadline for the Magic in Manhattan contest is almost here…

What contest?

As Rachel and Miri know, life’s a ball when when you’re a witch. In 100 words or less, tell Random House what you would do if you could be a witch for day!

One grand-prize winner will win a trip for four to New York City (as well as lunch with another wannabe witch…me).

To enter the contest and for more details go to www.MagicinManhattan.com.

All entries must be received by March 1, 2009.

Good luck!

Sarah

Hi all,

Just a reminder that Ally Carter (fab author of the hilarious Gallagher Girls books) will be discussing Bras & Broomsticks at her bookclub chat at 5:00 pm Eastern time today, Feb 15.

For instructions on how to log on, go to her website a few minutes before five. Can’t wait to chat!

xxx

Sarah

Hi,

Thank you guys for coming!!!!!!! I love chatting with readers.

But I think I might need new chat software. The one I just did was fun, but some people got…unruly. And pretended to be me. If anyone is still on the chat (even though it is closed) know that I am not on it.

Anyway. Thanks for coming! Must go eat dinner now!

Night!

xxx

Hi all,
I’m having a live chat on my website TONIGHT (Tuesday, Feb 3) at 7:00 PM EST. Happy to talk about PARTIES & POTIONS, the rest of the Magic in Manhattan series, writing, TV (how good was Gossip Girl last night?), Twilight (doesn’t it seem like all conversations lead to Twilight?), or anything you’d like.
The room will be open from 7:00 until 8:00 pm EST. Just go to the events section of my website and sign in.

There’s going to be another online chat coming up…this one hosted by superstar Ally Carter (author of the hilarious I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You and Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy.)  Ally has chosen Bras & Broomsticks to be her Feb book club pick! For more info go to Ally’s diary. I’ll pass on more info as soon as I get it, but the chat will take place in the Ally Chat chatroom (I don’t have the link yet) on Sunday, February 15th at 5:00 Eastern (4:00 central, etc.) time.

Hope to see you tonight!
Hugs & wishes,
Sarah

Hi there,

I’m doing a reading tomorrow!

Deets:

NEW YORK CITY, NY
Saturday, January 31, 3:00 pm
B&N Upper East Side
240 Eat 86th Street
New York, NY
212.794.1962
Free and open to the public

Hope those of you in the area can make it. I also hope there is not a snow storm like there was for my last New York event. People in NYC are afraid of snow. Since I am from Montreal, I laugh at these people.

xxx

Sarah