Anna


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28 years old
BROOKLYN, New York
United States



Last Login: 10/5/2008
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GeneralSummer, bicycles, high stakes dentistry, books and those who read them, people watching, winter, girls with problems, clean-smelling pirates, magic hour, happy hour, jasmine green tea, Christmas, movies about Christmas, California road trips, New York taxi rides, bad behavior.
MusicBob Dylan, The Ronettes, Shangri-Las, Detroit Cobras, Sam Cooke, Etta James, Leonard Cohen, Liz Phair, The Velvet Underground, Fleetwood Mac, The Kills, Arcade Fire, The Pixies, Nancy Sinatra, Tom Petty, The National, Cat Power.
MoviesHannah and Her Sisters, Husbands and Wives, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Short Cuts, L'avventura, La Notte, Chabrol's The Swindle, Chabrol's Betty, The Thin Man, The Lion in Winter, Friends With Money, The Family Stone, The Royal Tenenbaums, Touch of Evil, Sweet Smell of Success, Elizabeth, A History of Violence, Children of Men, Sideways, Irma La Douce
TelevisionWeeds, Deadwood, The Office
BooksDemocracy, Play It As It Lays, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, The Information, Libra, Martin Dressler, Bad Behavior, Veronica, The Custom of the Country, The Pilgrim Hawk, Lolita, Pnin, Ragtime, The Sun Also Rises, Vile Bodies, The Chrysanthemum Palace, The Corrections, The Group, Lucky Jim, The Secret History, Low Life, The Portrait of a Lady, A Sport and a Pastime, Fear and Conventionality
HeroesSuzanne Lacke

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Status:Married
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Hometown:Berkeley, CA
Zodiac Sign:Aries
Occupation:Writer



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About me:
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I am the author of The Luxe, a young adult novel, and its sequel Rumors, which HarperTeen just published. The series is about a group of teenagers in Gilded Age Manhattan who spend a lot of time dressing up and tearing each other down. Some of them are romantics and some of them are cynics, but they all move in a bright and fizzy world where everything is very light unless you're weighed down by a big, heavy secret. Before I started working on The Luxe series I ghostwrote other young adult novels, and I was also a bartender and a book reviewer and for a while I worked at a magazine. I attended Barnard College in New York, and before that Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California, which is where I'm from. Now I live in Brooklyn, where I am hard at work on the third Luxe book, Envy, which will be published in early 2009.
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Who I'd like to meet:
People who like to read books--or magazines or newspapers or scholarly journals or supermarket tabloids or manuals on how to behave, for that matter--and people who write them.


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Oct 11 2008 9:22 PM

i LOVE your books
thats the whole reason y i started reading in the first place
i like the whole plot scenes and the characters
it was awsome
have u considered making ur book a movie or a tv show
cuz that would be even more AMAZING
darienne♥





Sep 28 2008 8:10 PM

thanks, hey are u thinkin of writing any other series or books just wondering
;)
♣ReNa♣





Sep 25 2008 10:54 PM

anna i love love love ur books!
i love the time setting and everything
and i love the character diana
is there going to be a movie on this
srry 4 keep asking
darienne♥





Sep 24 2008 2:42 AM

hey thanks for adding me i love your books, and whats even better i love it when literary characters tend to look like me, just saying i think i and diana kinda bear a resemblance hah cant wait for the new one, hope all is well.
Sophie





Sep 21 2008 8:07 PM

hi! thanks for the add. you may have heard this about a hundred and one times, but i LOVE your books. i've read many novels set in the same era where the Luxe novels take place, but none of them have ever come close to being even half as good as your books are. i'm def excited for envy :-)
are you on facebook as well?
<3





Sep 13 2008 3:11 AM

Anna, I love your books. They are definitely some of my favorites. Can't wait for the third novel.
Thank you!
Chely





Aug 28 2008 11:39 PM

The book was great, I am looking forward to finishing my book & giving you a copy. Keep up the good work! The depiction of the characters & descriptions were fabulous ! You inspired me to finish up my dramedy as soon as possible.
-Chely
xxHannahxx





Aug 26 2008 6:12 PM

Gosh, I've just finished reading Rumours. What can I say!! Wow. You have an amazing talent and I hope you don't stop writing The Luxe series too soon!! I await in much antisipation for Envy! Keep up the good work,with Lots of English love.
xxx
imperial beach teen





Aug 11 2008 5:38 PM

Thanks for the interview Anna! I'm giving away both books in The Luxe series on my blog if anyone wants to enter here's the info:

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Contest ends August 31st, enter a comment with contact information on the post at www. ibteens. blogspot. com.
Thanks again!
Chely





Aug 11 2008 1:48 AM

Thanks for the Add, it made my Sunday ! I just bought your books and you are very talented. :-)
I cant't wait for your next book signing.
Toodles ! ,Chely
♥AaSiE J.





Aug 9 2008 4:59 AM

i love your books! cant wait for the next one! oh my sister was so mad after she read rumors!!.. cuz i didnt warn her of the not-so-happy -ending.. but LUXE is one of our fav. books.. i cant wait for the next!
ßåkêr





Aug 8 2008 7:28 PM

hehe... i agree with becca the ending in Rumors was depressing. It's usually my fault when i feel emotional over sad endings cause i get attached to the characters. I do love the books though so i hope Envy has a happier ending.
Kristin





Aug 7 2008 11:49 AM

I am beyond excited for Envy!
BeccA





Jul 28 2008 7:02 AM

so i work at barnes and noble and i saw The Luxe like 3 months ago or whenever it came out and i couldnt convince myself to buy it and then i finally did after rumors came out and omg are they amazing. i pretty much love your books.
but i did just finish reading rumors and all i have to say is WHY!!!???
i mean really did the ending really have to end that way. i pretty much threw my book across the room because i was a little angry. but its ok i have accepted it now. . .well atleast until envy comes out and then hopefully it will end happy.
brande cullen





Jul 25 2008 10:56 PM

Thanks for the add!

I love your books! Can't wait for the next one :)

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Jul 25 2008 6:13 PM

thanks for the add :]
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Glenside Public Library





Jul 21 2008 6:36 AM

Thanks for being a friend!

Jenne





Jul 17 2008 6:03 PM

Your novels are like delicious pieces of chocolate, slowly melting in my mouth. Oh, to live in a world with such pomp and circumstance.
CooKIE





Jul 17 2008 5:54 PM

hey anna!
just wanted to say that i love luxe and rumors!
cannot WAIT till the next one comes out!
when will that be!!?!?!
:)
miranda ♥ acdc





Jul 15 2008 6:09 AM

Omg, why did you have to get rid of you know who!?! Why not Lina or Penelope!?! XD haha, I can't wait for the next book!
Ryane Michelle





Jul 14 2008 8:09 PM

oh my goodness! i have thought of nothing more then having the books made into a movie. as long as the writers dont ruin the book. because i dont think u could change anything about it.
! I just love your books :)
♣ReNa♣





Jul 10 2008 2:41 AM

please please let me know if there is going to be a movie on these books
if not they should totally make one

once again u rock=DD
Briana[hannah][8.27.08]





Jul 6 2008 11:53 PM

i love, love, love the luxe.
i'm still reading rumors and it's so good!
♥Live♥Laugh♥Love♥





Jul 4 2008 7:02 AM

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Jul 2 2008 3:27 PM

Rumors is the first book I'm buying when i get my paycheck! After The Luxe, I'm hooked for life.
Did I hear something about book four????? Onward and upward Anna! Your fans are eagerly waiting!!!!
Schwartz Bookshop





Jul 2 2008 1:02 PM

Thanks for the add!Photobucket
from all the gang @ the bookshop!
♥calliepoo





Jul 1 2008 4:41 PM

how could you?!

i mean, really? REALLY?!

hahaha
needless to say, i just finished rumors.
Amber.





Jun 26 2008 9:11 PM


Rumors was amazing!

=D

I can hardly wait until Envy is out!
CG





Jun 25 2008 6:22 PM

Hey Anna ...just dropping by to say hi. ;-)

What's up? Are you already working on the 3rd Luxe book?
♥AaSiE J.





Jun 24 2008 8:03 AM

i finished reading RUMORS!!! I can't wait for my friends to read it, so we can talk about it... especially the ending...

I sooo cant wait for the next book.. I can't to know what going to happen with Henry! oh and with the Hollands... Di is my fave Character.. Oh i was soo mad at Lina..
The LUXE is one of my favorite books!!
Lliivane





Jun 23 2008 9:49 AM

Hello Anna !!
Thanks for adding me.
I didn't read your books yet, but they sound really good.

xoxo from France !!
ALPL YA STOP





Jun 20 2008 1:49 PM

Hi Anna. We have really enjoyed reading your books. The majority of our staff has read The Luxe and we can't stop talking about it! Most of us are reading Rumors now.
Can't wait for the next installment in this awesome series!!
♣ReNa♣





Jun 20 2008 3:07 AM

hi=D
i just read The Luxe 2 days ago and i couldnt put it down, ur books r amazing and thanks to ur books my summer is not boring=) thank u 4 that and u rock!

oh and is there going to be a movie on these books?
Laura





Jun 19 2008 5:34 PM

Thanks for the add, Anna!
The Elite





Jun 17 2008 3:29 AM

Just finished THE LUXE and loved it! Am restlessly waiting for my copy of RUMORS to arrive!
Susan





Jun 16 2008 5:03 PM

i'm loving RUMORS! your writing is much more potent, assured, and creative than before. nice work, beautiful.
THINNING THE HERD





Jun 14 2008 1:43 AM

ROCK!!

THINNING THE HERD--LIVE at ARLENE's GROCERY -- Tues June 17th--- Lower East Side NY

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9:30!
brittnee





Jun 13 2008 4:36 PM

Hey Anna, thanks for the add! I finished Rumors and just wanted to let you know how amazing it was! Really well written and emotionally charged...I actually cried at the intense ending.
Can't wait for the third one!!
Angie