Lisa Yee ([info]lisayee) wrote,
@ 2009-02-04 00:10:00
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The Making of MAYBE, plus Famous Illustrators and Authors Caught on Tape!
Hey! Over at Cheryl Klein's blog she's chronicling the making of ABSOLUTELY MAYBE and how my editors, Arthur Levine and Cheryl herselfness, and Moi, approached the creative process.

Here's a candid photo of the three of us discussing plot, theme and, the, overuse, of commas . . .
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And here's an except of our conversation . . .

Lisa: "ABSOLUTELY MAYBE came out of nowhere. Well, not exactly nowhere, but it did take me by surprise . . ."

To read more and Arthur and Cheryl's version of what happened, CLICK HERE.

Want a FREE copy of ABSOLUTELY MAYBE? Just enter this teenreads.com contest and you may be one of the ten winners!

Speaking of winners, here's a candid photo of bestselling author Betty Birney having treats and COFFEE! with Peepy earlier this week . . .
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(If you'd like to see a soupy salute to ABSOLUTELY MAYBE, CLICK HERE)

So, what did I do Super Book Sunday? I went to Vroman's and stared at my book which was facing out all on it's own!!!
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And look at this candid photo. I love it!
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Speaking of MySpace (I was seeing if I could trick you into thinking we were), I've fixed the ABSOLUTELY MAYBE page so you can Friend it without having to know my social security number.

The talented-and-he-makes-the-rest-of-us-look-like-slackers Jarrett J. Kroscozka . . .
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. . . debuted this ABSOLUTELY wonderful video at the SCBWI Conference in New York. It features some of the top names in children's literature like Jon Scieszka, the Ambassador of Children's Literture, Mo Willems, Adam Rex, Jeanne Birdsall, Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy, and even a sorta-cameo drive-by mention of a certain Peep . . .



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[info]authorwithin
2009-02-04 05:16 pm UTC (link)
Loved the video! LOL Thanks for sharing.

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[info]lisayee
2009-02-05 10:30 pm UTC (link)
Jarrett did a marvelous job.

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[info]rockinlibrarian
2009-02-04 11:47 pm UTC (link)
What kinds of "treats" are Peepy and Betty Birney having there? It looks like sweet potato chips? Whatever they are, I looked at that picture and thought TREATS should have been way more in caps than COFFEE was, but I'm pregnant so I get that way.

Also, the library where I recently was the temp teen librarian is having an anti-Valentines party too; if I was still there I'd get a copy of Absolutely Maybe as soon as possible to include in that display myself, but since I'm not there it'll probably miss that deadline....

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[info]lisayee
2009-02-05 10:32 pm UTC (link)
Chocolate cake. Homemade sweet potato(e) chips sprinkled with cheese. COFFEE!!!

Oink.

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FANTASTIC!!!
(Anonymous)
2009-02-05 07:19 pm UTC (link)
The video was AWESOME! Now I don't feel so bad about the rejections. :-)

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Jarrett's Video
[info]jeannebirdsall
2009-02-06 01:12 am UTC (link)
Sorry about cutting you off like that, Lisa. I forgot to leave enough time for Jarrett to splice in your audio. It wasn't his fault -- he's a terrific director, except when he's making you laugh so much you can't remember what you're doing.

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Re: Jarrett's Video
[info]lisayee
2009-02-18 08:44 pm UTC (link)
You were fabulous. Kate Winslet better watch out!

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[info]cindy_pon
2009-02-07 12:12 am UTC (link)
congratulations, lisa!!!

i'm adding this to my TBR pile.
hurrah!

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