Jennifer Brown

I've been kinda waiting for the official announcement to be made by the Michigan Library Association before springing the news, but after seeing that the Grand Rapids branch has announced, I just couldn't wait any longer.

It's officially summer break! We've already had a sleepover (7 boys), gone to the swimming pool 6 times since last Thursday, been bowling (I bowled a 108 and a 101! Woohoo!), signed up for the library summer reading program, bought bags and bags of paperbacks at a used book sale, and played more baseball and tee-ball games than I can count!

Because it's been so busy, I've had precious little time...

I'm so excited to see the tour bus rollin' through, because today I'm talking with Sydney Salter, the only Deb whom I've actually met in person (and, for the record, I adore her!), and author of  the YA novel, SWOON AT YOUR OWN RISK.

About SWOON AT YOUR OWN RISK:

Y...

Look what showed up in my mailbox today!

I can't tell you how excited I am about this! (And somewhat freak-out-ish because this makes my trip to Germany this fall All the More Real and Terrifying).

I just received my Little, Brown Fall/Winter catalog, and it's official: the Hate List paperback comes out in October! And it'll have a new cover! Check it:

Sweet!

So... anyone wanna play th...

Tomorrow morning I'll be heading up to the Kearney branch of the Mid-Continent Public Library for a Book Talk. There'll be cookies, copies of Hate List for sale, and a Q&A! Come on out and see me.

Details:

What: Book Talk about Hate List

Where: Mid Continent Public Library, Kear...

If you follow me on Twitter at all, you might have noticed that I haven't tweeted in a couple weeks. True, I've never been a great tweeter. But lately I've been flat-out lazy about it and am finding myself facing a Twitter crisis.

I want out.

See, I never really got the Twitter thing. Never really understood how to best u...

Tonight I got to "meet" (Skype) a very special friend of mine for the first time ever. Her name is Camille, and she was my 5th grade writing partner this year, a program I got involved in thanks to my amazing author friends, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (if you haven't read BEAUTIFUL CREATURES yet... you totally need to stop reading this now and go get your hands on a copy. Seriously.)

Camille didn't know that she was part...

So last week was probably the whirlwind-iest week I've had since Hate List came out (with the possible exception of Teen Read Week last October, but that would only be because I stupidly arranged a vacation to Disney World the week before). I not only had two school visits, talking to five different groups of students (both visits went awesome and I think I'm finally really starting to get a handle on this school visit thing), but also was presenting a humor-writing sess...

I know, I know, it's a bit early for lunch. But I have to eat early today -- lots to do! This weekend I'm teaching a couple workshops at the Missouri Writer's Guild annual conference, and also doing a meet & greet and signing at the MASL conference! Woohoo! Big weekend! So we'll call this an early lunch (or late breakfast, if you prefer), because I simply wasn't going to ...