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simmone howell's Interests
General
Music
byrds, love, neil young, velvets, incredible string band, walter wanderley, glen campbell, fred neil, bob dylan, smog, louvin brothers, america, bert jansch, steve reich, fleetwood mac, the cros, donald byrd, mongo santamaria, perez prado, leonard cohen, jessie mae hemphill, sonny boy williamson, charles trenet, silver jews, beechwood sparks, lovin spoonful, bill monroe, bobbie gentry,the loved ones
Movies
foxes, dogs in space, suburbia, desperately seeking susan, mi vida loca, goodbye gemini, valley girl, girls from pleasure island, valley of the dolls, chinatown, petulia, woodstock, the best of everything, how to marry a millionaire, gentlemen prefer blondes, gilda, all about eve, night of the hunter, over the edge, times square, to kill a mockingbird, spinal tap, gas food lodging, reservoir dogs, pulp fiction, king of comedy, wanda, cockfighter, ghost world, eating raoul, sunset boulevarde, in a lonely place, north by northwest, laura, rear window, the secret garden
Television
skins, veronica mars, six feet under, entourage, paddington, trumpton,moomins, department s, arrested development
Books
charles willeford, barry gifford, gavin lambert, f. scott fitzgerald, faulkner, nathaneal west, david goodis, charles bukowski, richard brautigan, denis johnson, jack kerouac, john fante, joyce johnson, ellen gilchrist, joyce carol oates, dawn powell, dorothy parker, anita loos, pamela des barres, eve babitz, beth nugent, tc boyle, horace mccoy, raymond chandler, william burroughs, alexander trocchi, patricia highsmith, carson mccullers, harper lee, jd salinger, raymond carver, jim thompson, seth morgan
About me: I'm a writer from country Victoria.
My first young adult book, NOTES FROM THE TEENAGE UNDERGROUND (Pan Macmillan, Bloomsbury) won the 2007 Victorian Premier's Prize and the inaugural Gold Inky from the magnifico Inside a Dog website.
My next book, EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL will be out in November. It's about the unlikely romance between a fat girl and a wheelchair boy at a Christian holiday camp. Meanwhile I am blogging at simmone.livejournal.com
About NFTU:
Heathers meets I Shot Andy Warhol in this gritty ode to underground cool by award-winning screenwriter and debut Australian novelist Howell. The story's contagious blend of video store lingo, catty alpha girl politics and a twinge of real heart is both knowingly pretentious and fun. When 17-year-old Gem and her anti-establishment pals, Lo and Mira, form a group called Ug (short for Underground) in order to flaunt and elevate their fringe social standing, there's no doubt that each of their lives is about to change. Ug's goal? To shock their cookie-cutter classmates by making a subversive film and airing it at a "Happening," à la Warhol's Factory. When the supposedly united trio's plan backfires Gem decides to create and air a solo project about life as she sees it. With references to Valerie Solanas, Edie Sedgwick, Dostoevsky and Germaine Greer, teen misfits and film geeks will devour this renegade read with pleasure.
- PW 2007
Who I'd like to meet: writers, readers, loafers ...
i lovelovelove your book, i'm rereading it again right now =)
i bought a copy of it to give to a friend the other day and ordered another for a different friend because i love it that much that i just wanna keep buying it and making other people read it haha.
I love Simmone Howell, she rocks! he. Hey guess what? Val emailed me!! I think I can get a copy of Spicks for you to look at. And, I'm comin' to play the Palais on Oct 4. So if I don't get to see you beforehand, twill be then my love. Now, to watch my new Flight of the Conchords dvd.....xxxxxxxxx
I am working on reading your book right now! It's very inspirational and is getting me back into art and whatnot again. I tend to be very influenced by the books I read, so from the feel of things I think I am going to have a very creative summer. [: I just got a videocamera for my birthday, and I am only on page 86 of your book right now, but an underground film sounds like a fantastic idea for a summer project! Thank you for writing that book and getting me back into art again!
hii, thanks for ya comment i just finished my exams- hope i did well.. just at a mates joint, so bored.. hope ya ave a gr8 weekend!! =] [xXx] Dannii Lee ^-^
hey i got the book today,thankyou so much as soon as i checked the mail i couldnt wait to open it and i was reading it walking up the driveway and couldnt take my eyes off it now i cannot stop reading it.i really do appreciate what you did and thanks again for coming to my school inspiring my loser class well the people i sit with are losers anyway better be off thanks again Love Ruby xo
hey! thanks for the add. yeah, more like LOVED you book. i was reeeally into warhol at the time and the three girls are like me and my friends were at the time. and i love that i could relate to it so much when you talked about different places.
i read your book last week and absolutely loved it! it seems like it actually is written by a teenager, which a lot of adult authors can't seem to manage, and it was a really interesting concept.
i signed up for your workshop at sandy library but turned up late and totally wimped out (yeah i know, i'm wedgy-ing myself for being so lame) but yeah i wish i hadn't cause it sounded like it was going to be really good.
aeee would you be able to tell me what the 17th verse of the 'San Francisco Blues' is? im writing a story on it and i forgot to write down what it was about thanks for the sessions mel
Hey! Thank you very much. That's awesome. I'm so glad to hear. If you don't mind me asking, which books were those? I hope you enjoy them regardless though!!
Thanks for your brilliant comment on my blog. So well said! It does make me so sad how desensitized we are becoming and how low of a priority education is. BTW, your book is on the top of my wish list, I absolutely can't wait to read it. I've heard so many great things!
Thanks! They had special photobooths set up where you could get your picture taken. The screentests were amazing, even though there were only 6 screens set up so we had to sit through about 5 people we didn't know before we got to someone like Edie or Nico or Lou Reed or whoever...
Just wanted to tell you how much I love 'Notes'. Made it even better after I got to see the Andy Warhol exhibition in Brisbane (and 'The Kiss')! Keep up the good work! :D
