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THIS LIST:

Gordon Korman, Pop
Justine Larbalestier, Liar
David Levithan, Love is the Higher Law
E. Lockhart, The Treasure Map of Boys
Lauren McLaughlin, Recycler
Bennett Madison, The Blonde of the Joke
Dan Poblocki, The Stone Child
Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan

At NYPL THIS WEDNESDAY.

I will be at work. (Grr, argh.) Unless I can beg someone to trade places with me, and I'm not even sure if that's allowed because my boss is out of town, and if Co-worker has class then she won't be able to close.

COME ON. Larbalestier, Levithan, Lockhart, Leviathan. It was just announced a couple minutes ago, or I'd have scheduled better.

I has teh envy.

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Yesterday I was walking home from the grocery store and I got to thinking, wouldn't Such Deliberate Disguises (the historical fantasy I was working on around 2004-2005) work as a YA? It has a couple of different plotlines going on, but one of them is about a human girl, kidnapped by the faeries for breeding stock as a baby and raised underground with them, now a teenager and in love with one of them--until her father finds her and he's determined to kill all the fae.

It's a bit different from the usual YA paranormal romance because the fae boy she's in love with isn't some mysterious stranger but the kid she's grown up with, and the fae world is ordinary to her--it's the human world that's frightening and strange. So I read it over to see how well it would hold up to being reworked, and what struck me was, what happened to me between then and 2007, when I was working on A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend? I cannot believe how much I did not know about writing back then. And this, mind you, is after having written three whole novels. ( Read more... )

Woo hoo!

Yes, I AM going to NYPL on Wednesday. Yes, I AM totally thrilled about it, especially since I didn't make it to David Levithan's release party for "Love is the Higher Law."

That is all.