Hello, David Levithan and Bye-Bye Bobby #2
I am soooooo sorry! I know I said we'd announce the winner of the Bodacious Book Contest. However, the entries were so great that the judges are still deliberating. Soon! Soon! We will crown our winner soon!!!

In the meantime, recently Peepy and I were lucky enough to see our friend David Levithan at Vroman's.



David, who is also VP/Editorial Director at Scholastic, was on tour for his latest novel, LOVE IS THE HIGHER LAW. Yes, he is an overachiever and we wish he would stop. (He makes us look like slackers.)

Anyway, before David's event, we bumped into authors Cecil Castellucci and Blake Nelson. They were browsing . . .


Here's David from where we were sitting . . .


And here he is, up close and personal . . .


A raffle was held for an ARC (advanced readers copy) of David's upcoming blockbuster bestseller, WILL GRAYSON, WILL GRAYSON, hence to be known as WG2. He wrote it with uber author John Green. Here's John with WG2 editor Julie Strauss-Gabel . . .


Guess who won the raffle????


Teen was with us, so I had David sign the book to . . . ME!

(He signed LOVE IS THE HIGHER LAW for her.)

Not to rub it in, but . . . hahahahaha!!! The book doesn't come out until April 2010 and I've already read it, and loved it!!!

I asked John Green about the title and main characters' names. Why not call it, "JOHN GREEN, JOHN GREEN" or "DAVID LEVITHAN, DAVID LEVITHAN"?

And he said, "We chose the name in advance--it was one of the few things picked at the outset. David chose the Will and I chose the Grayson." Then he added, "We wanted to call it PEEPY, PEEPY, but her lawyers wouldn't let us." (Okay, maybe he didn't say that last sentence--but he probably thought it.)

In other news . . . YES! I just finished the line-edits of BOBBY THE BRAVE (SOMETIMES), the second book in the Bobby Ellis-Chan series. I was having problems with the endings and kept scribbling notes . . .

I even wrote the perfect last line in my sleep. But in the morning, when I looked at the paper I wrote it on, MY PEN HAD GONE DRY.

That's okay. I came up with a better line when I was awake. And now it's done! I've sent off the manuscript to these fine editors in NYC . . .

(That would be Cheryl Klein, on left, Moi in the middle, and Arthur Levine.)

And finally, fashion tip of the week. Don't iron. Use this . . .


It's what busy authors and others everywhere use to get rid of wrinkles! Sadly, it only works on clothes.

Alrighty. Getting ready to rumble with Laurie Halse Anderson, Barbara O'Connor, Maureen Johnson and Justine Larbalestier at the NCTE Convention in Philadelphia this weekend.

We're all on a panel together.
The topic is one of the following:
Dentistry
Blogging
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