Hi everyone! I hope you’re having a terrific summer.

First of all, if you live in NYC (or somewhere around NYC) please come say hi at my NYC book signing! It’s free and it’s air conditioned. And it’s in Columbus Circle, which is one of the only malls in the city. And who doesn’t like a good mall?

Details: TUESDAY, July 27, 2010 7:00 PM, Borders, 10 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019, 212.823.9775 Hope you can make it!

I’ve been very busy the last two weeks on a blog tour for GIMME A CALL. No worries if you missed it—you can read all the entries right here:

• Tues, July 6: http://hollywoodcrush.mtv.com/2010/07/06/gimme-a-call-author-sarah-mlynowski-shares-her-embarrassing-summer-memories I discuss my most embarrassing summer memory.
• Wed, July 7: http://slayground.livejournal.com/615434.html Interview with Little Willow.
• Thurs, July 8: http://www.melissacwalker.com/blog/2010/07/cover_stories_gimme_a_call_by.html The story behind my cover.
  
  
• Fri, July 9: http://chicklitisnotdead.com/ Five things you don’t know about me
• Sat, July 10: http://cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com/ Wanna know more about the #gimmeacall promotion?
• Mon, July 12: http://www.bookloons.com/ Q&A.
  
  
• Tues, July 13: http://throughaglass.net/ Five books that changed my life.
  
  
• Wed, July 14: http://www.beatrice.com/wordpress/ Where I got the idea for Gimme A Call. Or is it?
  
  
• Also July 14: http://randomactsofreading.wordpress.com/ Ten things I would tell my younger self if, say, I had a magic cell phone.
  
  
• Thurs, July 15: http://bookwormbooklovers.blogspot.com/ My summer obsessions. They include GLEE and some awesome book.
  
  
• Fri, July 16: http://www.allycarter.com/blog.html What would happen if Ally Carter’s books and mine collided?

If you do read them and enjoy, spread the word an post or tweet them!

Have a great summer. Stay cool…

Hugs & wishes,

Sarah

Hello!

I am off to Montreal tomorrow!

While there I will:

1. Eat party sandwiches (huh, you ask? Us Montrealers say party sandwiches. You probably say tea sandwiches. Or finger sandwiches. Or tuna and egg sandwiches on white bread sliced into tiny little pieces.  In Montreal we do not wait for bridal showers to eat these…we have them all the time! For lunch! For breakfast! For dinner! For snack! Fine, I’m exaggerating. Kind of.

2. Sleep in. While my in-laws watch my daughter. Yay!

3. Sign copies of GIMME A CALL! Read from GIMME A CALL! Talk about GIMME A CALL!

Details:

Sunday, May 30, 2010, 3pm

Chapters–Pointe Clair (6321 Trans Canada Highway)

Plus…IN-STORE CONTEST! One lucky customer will WIN a 50$ gift certificate to Rogers! To enter, fill in the ballot in store and answer the question: what would you say to your younger year old self?

So if you are a Montrealer…I hope you can make it.  You can enter the contest, plus you can meet my 1-year old daughter. She will be wearing her new yellow dress, and I can almost guarantee she will blow you a kiss.

Hugs and wishes everyone,

xxx

Sarah

Yes, there were tornadoes in Memphis. But they didn’t stop us!

Thank you Justine Magazine for an amaaaazing trip. Events were fantastic! Fashion show! TV! School visits! Davis-Kidd event! And thank YOU all for coming. It was great to meat you.

Tomorrow I’m off to Atlanta for an event with my BFF Lauren Myracle! Lauren’s new book THIRTEEN PLUS ONE is coming out tomorrow and we’re going to celebrate at Little Shop of Stories.

And then on Wednesday I’m off to Chicago for an event at Anderson’s! (Downer’s Grove location)

And Saturday I’m back in the NY are with a 3-4:30 signing at Diane’s in Greenwich.

Hope to see you there…

Also hope there are no tornadoes…

xxx

Hi hi hi.

Gimme a Call comes out tomorrow! Yay! Finally. I think I’ve been talking about it since 2006. Well, this is it. The final stretch.

So here’s where I’m gonna be:

Long Island, NY

Tuesday, April 27^th, 7pm

Barnes & Noble

91 Old Country Rd.

Carle Place, NY 11514

http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/store/2216

Memphis, TN

Saturday, May 1^st, 4pm

Davis-Kidd Booksellers

387 Perkins Extended

Memphis, TN 38117

www.daviskidd.com

I am also going to be at a very cool fashion show luncheon in Memphis on Saturday, May 1 from 12-2. (Hosted by Justine Magazine!) Tickets are $22 a person, and you need to reserve yours by today. Check out this link for more info. http://justinemagazine.com/sarah_spring_luncheon.htm

Miami, FL

Sunday, May 2^nd, 4pm

Books and Books

265 Aragon Ave.

Coral Gables, FL 33154

www.booksandbooks.com

Atlanta, GA

Tuesday, May 4^th, 7pm

With my friend Lauren Myracle for her THIRTEEN PLUS ONE release party!

Little Shop of Stories

133A East Court Square

Decatur, GA 30030

www.littleshopofstories.com

Chicago, IL

Wednesday, May 5^th, 7 pm

Anderson’s Bookshop, Downers Grove location

5112 Main St
Downers Grove, IL 60515

www.andersonsbookshop.com

Greenwich, CT

Saturday May 8^th

Time TBD

Diane’s Books

8A Grigg St.

Greenwich, CT 06830

www.dianesbooks.com

Madison, CT

Tuesday, May 11^th, 4:30 pm

RJ Julia Booksellers

768 Boston Post Rd.

Madison, CT 06443

www.rjjulia.com

Tickets for this event are $5, which may be used toward the purchase of the book

Petaluma, CA

Thursday, May 20^th, 7 pm

Copperfield’s Books Petaluma

140 Kentucky St.

Petaluma, CA 95404

www.copperfieldsbooks.com/store_petaluma

Montreal, Canada

Sunday, May 30^th

Location and Time TBD

That’s it for now! I’ll be blogging and facebooking and Tweeting along the way.

Speaking of Twitter…wanna hear about my Twitter promotion? Basically I asked some author friends to tell me what they would tell their high school selves if, say, they have magical cell phones. I started posting their quotes on twitter…and #gimmeacall went viral.

To follow the promotion or to write what you would tell your high school self join in here: #gimmeacall

To read articles I wrote about the promotion go to Publishers Weekly or Huffington Post.

That’s it. Book comes out tomorrow! I hope you like it. And I hope you come say hello if you’re in one of the above cities.

Hugs and wishes,

Sarah

Hi there,

39 days until Gimme a Call comes out!

I am soooo excited.

Supposedly there is an ad in this month’s Teen Vogue for the book! Has anyone seen it? If not check it out!

I’ll be doing a bit of touring for the book and will let you know where I’m going as soon as the events are final. But there will definately be events in NYC, Connecticut and…Memphis! Yup, Memphis. I have never been to Memphis so I’m super excited. Justine Magazine will be hosting all kinds of fun launch events including…a fashion show. I might need a dancing spell. No, don’t worry, I won’t be ON the catwalk. More details about the event as soon as I have them!

If you’re on Facebook, please check out the new Gimme a Call fan page, become a fan and help spread the word!

Hugs & wishes,

Sarah

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.)