Every author obsesses over her Amazon ranking. (Come on, you know it’s true.) I took these snapshots the day I was on the Today Show for Boyology and I watched (almost minute by minute) as my ranking went from 70,000 to 400! I know it’s kind of ridiculous and completely self-indulgent, but I would be [...]
It’s a question I’ve been asking myself as I’ve been touring around to bookstores and meeting YA readers and booksellers. And I’m not the only one. The Wall Street Journal‘s recent article It Was, Like, All Dark and Stormy says that today’s teenagers are looking for “tales of destruction and death” but that’s not what [...]
I am one of the least musically talented people I know. Yes, I sing in the shower…but I can’t remember real lyrics to save my life. And even though I play guitar hero on medium, I have to focus with every ounce of my brain power (and it helps if I know the song, otherwise [...]
This morning, instead of getting on the E train and going to work like I normally do, I went to Rockefeller Center and appeared on the Today Show! Sitting in the studio, talking to Al Roker and Michele Borba about relationships and dating, I had one of those pinch-yourself moments. (You can watch the segment [...]
My editor just sent along the second review of BOYOLOGY and it’s fantastic! It ran today in the Publisher’s Weekly Children’s Bookshelf and I would have totally missed it if she hadn’t sent it to me. The whole review is below but I have to give a little shout-out to the incredible publicists working on [...]
I just got my first official book review for BOYOLOGY! No matter what any author tells you, there’s always a sense of hesitation before the first reviews and reader reactions come in. I mean, you put your entire self – all your energy and creativity and embarrasing stories – into this book. What if people [...]
As you can see from my new web banner, the book jacket for my new book BOYOLOGY: A Teen Girl’s Crash Course in All Things Boy is done! The book isn’t on sale yet (just a few more months until May!) but I’m working with my amazing publisher, Chronicle Books, to set up my tour [...]
This is enough to make any author happy: How to Raise Your Parents is included in the Association of Booksellers for Children’s catalog of the best books of the year for 2008. Hooray!
YA author Diana Rodriguez Wallach‘s new book Amor and Summer Secrets is just hitting bookshelves. I got to talk with Diana about the book, what it’s like to be 16 in Puerto Rico, and how she became a writer (it involves a psychic!) Q: You say on your website, that a medium predicted you were [...]
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