YA New York

FYI:

A gaggle of teen authors will be doing their thing at the Jefferson Market Branch of the New York Public Library tonight. Six p.m., Sixth Avenue at 10th Street.

From the FaceBook page:

Micol and David Ostow: So Punk Rock
Elizabeth Scott: Love You Hate You Miss You
Delia Sherman: The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen
Jennifer Smith: You Are Here
Suzanne Weyn: Distant Waves
Jake Wizner: Castration Celebration
Jessica Wollman: Second Skin

Of these books, I’ve only read Distant Waves, but I can tell you that David Levithan, the venerable author, editor and event organizer, has excellent taste. (Oh, and Distant Waves is awesome.)

Hopefully I’ll be able to snag copies of some of these books for you tonight, as well as taking pics and writing up the event for those of you who are not in New York or who are unable to make it to tonight’s reading.

But if you’re free, and you’re in or near NYC, please do come. It should be a blast!

PS. Elizabeth Scott is crazy prolific. I just read Something, Maybe, which debuted in April, and it turns out that Love You, Hate You, Miss You is her brand new book out this month. Wow!

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.

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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!

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.