lipstick, amusement parks, body art, show tunes, broadway, cheese, cooking, lapsed academics, adaptations, photo albums, dinner parties, theme restaurants, theater history, home movies
Music
My taste is highly erratic, generally embarassing and overall, unrepresentative of my personality.
I like folk music. I like show tunes. I like standards. I like silence.
If you go to my website and look in the top of the right-hand column, there's a link to the iMix for my book Dramarama. Those are some of my favorite musical theater songs of all time.
Movies
Moulin Rouge, Cabaret, Gregory's Girl, Singin' in the Rain, His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I Capture the Castle...
Television
I don't really watch it.
Books
The Boyfriend List, Fly on the Wall, Not Like I'm Jealous or Anything, The Boy Book, Dramarama. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. How to Be Bad. Those are ones I wrote. Or wrote part of.
I write novels for teenagers. I'm the author of The Boyfriend List, The Boy Book, Fly on the Wall, Dramarama, How to Be Bad (together with Sarah Mlynowski and Lauren Myracle) and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. At my website there's a blog, plus all kinds of information on my books, preview chapters, ridiculous quizzes, videos and more.
Or come friend me, Sarah Mlynowski and Lauren Myracle at the How to Be Bad myspace page, which has video of our road trips, secrets about our bad pasts, and podcasts!
I have been known to wear pink and orange together. I have dyed my hair quite a number of different colors but never blue. I am prone to psychological back pain, and when I tell myself it's all psychological the pain just moves to my calf muscles.
Cat person. Cheese person. Drinker of diet root beer. Virgo. Nail-biter. Silly dancer. Reader of cookbooks and novels. Anglophile.
Animal I most resemble (according to my nearest and dearest): an otter.
NOTE: I get a lot of messages from people and find I can't email them back because they haven't "friended" me -- so if you want a reply, add me, please!
Hey there! I just wanted to let you know that I'm almost done with the Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and I'm loving it! It's an amazing book. Definitely expect a great review from me! :)
Disreputable was a wonderful book, as are all of your books. I loved the neglected positive tidbit and so look forward to reading the upcoming Treasure Map book as well.
Weird though, I found two typos in Disreputable: pg. 147 second to last paragraph, last sentence. And pg. 193 last paragraph, second sentence.
I am in the final stretch of finishing The Disreputable History and I must say it is one of the best books I have read in awhile. I am so used to a first person narrater that the third person threw me off but it grew on me so quickly. I love Frankie. I can relate with her dilemma; wanting members of the opposite sex to like her brains and personality over her looks. Doing what needs to be done to get that across. Thank you for writing a great book; being a girl this novel made me more aware of who I am. Plus, all the words I needed to look up made it even more fun. Sincerely, A Girl who works at a library Lourdes
