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No, my friends, I am not inviting you to go see an all-star special screening of Twilight with me. This is because I myself have not received any such invitation.

HOWEVER, I am inviting you to send me your pictures. If you go to the film on opening night, e-mail me pics of the crowd. I want to see any and all wackiness, from lines extending down three blocks to people in vampire and werewolf outfits to … well, you get the idea. I’ll post the best pics here on YA New York. Please be sure to include you names (or your internet handles) and locations, so I can give you attribution. A short description wouldn’t go awry, either.

Now, it’s the weekend. I may or may not be attending one or more events this weekend, and I may or may not tell you about them come Monday. For now, everyone go re-read E. Lockhart’s The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks.

Much love,
brina

Oh, kiddies. You missed a BIG night Wednesday. Big. Epic. Huge.

You know why? Not only were there six amazing authors reading from their books, but we were also graced with the presence of a celebrity guest. Yes, indeed, a woman so recognizable and so widely beloved that I fully expect you all to kick yourselves for not attending.

A pity you missed it, but I’m going to share it with you anyway. Ready? Pics inside! (more…)

Another fantabulous event coming up on Wednesday, Aug. 20:

David Levithan hosts another author panel, featuring Nora Baskin (All We Know of Love), Matt de la Pena (Mexican Whiteboy), Donna Freitas (Possibilities of Sainthood), Lauren McLaughlin (Cycler), Lauren Mechling (Dream Girl), Margo Rabb (Cures for Heartbreak) and Martin Wilson (What They Always Tell Us).

6 p.m., 425 Sixth Avenue at 10th Street. I’ll be there this time, for sure, because I have a dinner date afterwards. And nothing keeps a girl honest like a good old-fashioned plan to meet up with a friend. Between now and then I hope to read a few of these books, because this time there are more I haven’t read than there are that I have. And I do owe you about a million reviews. Later today, or this weekend: a photo of the pile of books I’ve read and am planning to write up for you.

♥
brina

… everyone else was at the Books of Wonder signing the other night. Katie Davis posted pics and a description of the BoW signing on her blog, and Melissa Walker wrote about it on hers, and some people from The N were there, so maybe they posted something about it. Though — sigh — I haven’t been able to find anything yet. If you do, tell us about it, yes?

Oops! I forgot to tell y’all about this:

Rachel Vail, Anna Godberson, Suzanne Weyn, J.M. Steele and F. Paul Wilson will be reading tonight at Books of Wonder. 5 p.m. 18 W. 18th Street. If you go, take pics for me!

Okay, so everyone but everyone was at the New York Public Library’s Jefferson Market Branch last night. ALL the cool kids were there. Or almost all of them. Sarah Mlynowski had to give the event a miss because she was called away to Montreal on an emergency (Best wishes and big hugs to you, Sarah — we hope everything is or will be all right). We missed her, but we had fun anyway, because in addition to all the authors I told you about before, Ms. Rachel Vail was there.

I’ve got tons of pics, but of course you’ll have to look inside for them.

Well, okay, here’s a taste:

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This is the mother of all author readings, and you’ve really got to come. Seriously. It’s on Wednesday, June 25th, as in next week, and I’m telling you now so you’ve got plenty of time to plan.

David Levithan, author of books like Boy Meets Boy and co-author of the fabulous Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, not to mention editorial director at Scholastic, will host the mammoth event.

All right. Now on to the authors who will be reading:
• Susane Colasanti, who wrote Take Me There and When It Happens
• John Cox, author of Box Out*
• Sarah Beth Durst, whose new book Out of the Wild I wrote about earlier this week
• Daphne Grab, author of Alive and Well in Prague, New York
• E. Lockhart and Sarah Mlynowski, two of three co-authors of How To Be Bad and a whole bunch of other great books besides
• And last but not least, Randi Reisfeld, an author and an editor at Scholastic. Her newest book, Rehab, comes out in July, and I think we may get a sneak peek at this here reading.

Details! The event is at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 25th at the Jefferson Market Branch of the New York Public Library. 425 Sixth Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets. I’ll be there, and I have an inkling there will be a whole host of authors there, in addition to the ones on the bill. YA writers can’t stand to miss a good reading, you know.

* I can’t find this book on Amazon, nor can I find John Cox on the entirety of the interwebs. Either there is a spelling mistake, or the mysterious Mr. Cox’s mysterious book is … mysterious. If you know anything about the teen author John Cox (not, I think, the politician whose name is all over the place), please do say something in comments so I can correct this entry!

UPDATE: Thanks to Alea, we now know that the mysterious writer is one Mr. John Coy, whose new book Box Out is available on Amazon.com.

So, as I said, Rachel Cohn and Patricia McCormick are doing a reading at B&N in Greenwich Village on Tuesday. But! Rachel Vail will also be reading from her awesome novel, Lucky, previously reviewed here.

Here’s the invite she sent out:

Bank Street Bookstore is at 112th St. and Broadway. Don’t complain about having to go allll the way uptown, chickies. It’s for a worthy cause. Would I send you past 96th Street if it wasn’t a good cause? No, I would not. Regardless, please do come to one of the two signings Tuesday. You have choices! Multiple choices, neither of which would be wrong. If you do attend, feel free to take pics and e-mail them to me. Be sure to include your name so I can give you photo credits and e-hugs.

This week is jam-packed. As in, packed with jam. Blackberry jam.

First, there’s a reading Thursday night for the 21 and over crowd at KGB Bar. Bennett Madison, Melissa Walker, Carolyn Mackler and Michael Northrop.

The action starts at 7 p.m. 85 E. 4th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. For all you under-21s, I’ll be there with my camera and notebook in hand, so don’t fret.

And ANYWAY, there are totally other things happening this weekend. Like: A huge cast of awesome writers, including Sarah Beth Durst and Claudia Gray, Gail Carson Levine, Scott Mebus and Diana S. Zimmermanwill be reading at Books of Wonder at noon on Saturday. That’s NOON, folks. On Saturday. Which is June 14. Which is when you will be at 18 W. 18th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues.

NEXT week, Rachel Cohn and Patricia McCormick will be at Barnes and Noble twice. On Tuesday they’re reading at the Greenwich Village location (Sixth Avenue at 8th Street), and on Wednesday they’re reading in Brooklyn (267 7th Ave. in Park Slope).

Whew. I get exhausted just thinking about all these events. But I will be attending at least three of the four — I can’t decide whether to do the Brooklyn reading or the Manhattan one for the lovely Ms. Cohn and Ms. McCormick, but I probably won’t go to both. Methinks Brooklyn might be nice. I mean, how often do folks give readings in my very own borough? Oftener than I think, perhaps, but still. Anyway, I hope to see you at some of these things. I’m the short busty Asian chick, so please come say hi if you see me, yah?

Much love,
brina

For those of you who missed it, we had a spanking good time today at Books of Wonder. Authors Holly Black, Tiffany Trent, Cecil Castellucci, Craig Laurance Gidney and Beth Bernobich, along with their editor Steve Berman, sat at an extra-long stretch table and read from their anthology of magical short stories, Magic in the Mirrorstone.

I must confess, I hadn’t gotten to read the whole thing before I attended the reading. But in a sense, that made me totally ripe for the event. Because I was completely sucked in as each author read from his or her story. Seriously, I didn’t fidget, or look around, or think about whether purple monkeys would be better than brown monkeys. I just listened.


So I’ll be getting right onto that reading asap. First, though, here are some pictures: (more…)