Writing, reading YA books, acrylic and oil painting, cupcakes, collage, handmade stuff, sewing, Indian cooking, screen printing, artist trading cards, Etsy.com, graphic design, accumulating art supplies, designing cards, stories, making up songs, supporting fellow writers, SCBWI, blogging, hyperspace theory, labyrinths, lemon sorbet, Natalie Dee comics, Sticky Bunz, Miss Manners, exploring the city, hanging out with my husband and daughter.
Music
Splashdown, Freezepop, Symbion Project, Universal Hall Pass, Portishead, Delirium, Everything But The Girl, The Smiths, They Might Be Giants, This Mortal Coil, Evanescence, Ginny Owens, Dead Can Dance, Bjork, U2, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Velvet Underground, The Proclaimers, Plumb, October Project
Movies
Stealing Beauty, Garden State, Moulin Rouge, Napoleon Dynamite, Dangerous Liaisons, Audrey Hepburn movies, Amelie, Strictly Ballroom, The Music Man, all that great 80's stuff, cult classics like Better Off Dead, John Hughes, Princess Bride, Neverending Story, then of course LOTR, classic Star Wars, Bladerunner, The Highlander, Sci Fi in all its craziness, Agatha Cristie mysteries...so many more.
Television
I try so hard not to watch TV...then fail miserably. My can't-miss shows are Lost, Ugly Betty, and Numbers. I'm obsessed with the new Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, Firefly, Babylon 5, and all things Trek (yeah, I know, I know, just tattoo "geek" on my forehead already).
Books
Book of a Thousand Days, The White Darkness, North of Beautiful, On Pointe, Faeries of Dreamdark, Tantalize, Nothing But The Truth (and a few white lies), Dragon's Keep, Avielle of Rhia, Looking for Alaska, Invisible Cities, Speak, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Pale Fire, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, A Great and Terrible Beauty, Lolita, anything Borges or Marguerite Duras, How I Live Now, The Princess Diaries, The Island of the Day Before, Gingerbread, A la Recherche de Temps Perdu, Chronicles of Narnia, Neverending Story, A Certain Slant of Light, Twilight, Godless, 100 Years of Solitude, The Astonishing Adventures of Fan Boy and Goth Girl, Geek Love, Fat Kid Rules the World, Just Listen, Weetzie Bat, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Princess Academy, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Ulysses, Time Stops for No Mouse, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Crank, Thirteen Reasons Why...the list could take over the web. I spend a lot of time reading (when I'm not writing, of course). When I'm writing, I try not to read other stuff so that I can keep my focus, but I do allow some fantasy.
Heroes
You're The Giver!
by Lois Lowry While you grew up with a sheltered childhood, you're pretty sure
everyone around you is even more sheltered. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, you were
tapped on the shoulder and transported to the real world. This made you horrified by
your prior upbringing and now you're tormented by how to reconcile these two lives.
Ultimately, the struggle comes down to that old free will issue. Choose
wisely.
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About me: Welcome! I'm an author of teen fiction and a readergirlz chicka. My YA novel, TELL ME A SECRET, is coming from HarperCollins in 2010. I'm currently working on a second YA novel.
Visit my website at www.hollycupala.com.
Who I'd like to meet: Other bibliophiles, writers, artists, teens who like to read, teens who hate to read, interesting people, friends.
Thanks. Actually 2 surgeries that somehow, made me go for two extra days. Because of a technical error in the process. I am doing so-so. Just really tired and cold.
I had a great time! It was fun getting to see you there for your debut. :-) And yay on Janet Lee Carey's upcoming Egmont titles. I just checked out her site and her work sounds awesome!
