The title of this post is my favorite line from a recent review of Secret Society Girl in The Toledo Blade. I read it in the atrium of the hotel in Atlanta, and started to jump up and down in excitement. In fact, I jumped up and down on the toes of my friend, RITA-winning [...]
Entries from July 2006
July 31, 2006
GCC: Golden, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Stupid Marriott Marquis and their stupid lack of internet access. I’m so far behind on my blogging.Ahem, today, we are touring debut author Jennifer Lynn Barnes. Her book, Golden, is about a girl who can see auras.
At Emory High, there are two kinds of people: those who matter, and those who don’t.
When Lissy James moves [...]
July 25, 2006
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Well, it’s 12:31 on the day I’m supposed to leave for Atlanta. Am I packed? Ha! Is my house clean? Ha! Ha! Is the lasagna I promised I’d make for Sailor Boy cooked? Somebody stop me!However, I did get a lovely pedicure, and my bookmarks arrived. Aren’t they scrumptious? (The bookmarks, I mean; I’m sparing [...]
July 24, 2006
Bookreporter, prizes, trips and flicks
First of all, I have another review, interview, and prize opportunity going on at Bookreporter.com! I knew about the interview, obviously, but I had no idea they’d include a review of the book:
SECRET SOCIETY GIRL is Peterfreund’s titillating debut entry in a new series featuring plucky heroine Amy Haskel, one of the select few [...]
July 22, 2006
Diana on the Radio
Residents of Nassau County, Wilmington, Delaware, Ocean, New Jersey, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina may get a chance to hear the radio ad for Secret Society Girl this weekend.
But everyone else can listen to my Eye on Books Interview here on the web! Bill Thompson’s syndicated [...]
July 21, 2006
The BIG Secret is Out!
I’m thrilled and astounded and excited to announce the following:
SECRET SOCIETY GIRL PARTY
sponsored by The L MagazineThursday, August 3
At HOME Club in New York CityCo-sponsored by Dos XX beer and Hell’s Belles
Okay, I’m off to put together my invite list and shop for swanky clothes! Somebody pinch me!
July 21, 2006
Talkin’ about promo…
First of all, thanks so much to everyone who came to my chat last night! I can’t believe it went so late! After the official chat was over, a handful of us stuck around and talked movies until midnight (ET). Outrageous. And I learned that when you talk movies, it all ends up coming back [...]
July 20, 2006
CHAT Tonight
Tonight, I’ll be chatting at the Knight Agency chat space about my new release… um, I forget the name. Something something girl.
9 p.m. Be there or be an elongated hexagon.
Yes, my jokes are lame. lame lame lame’. Come see more lame jokes tonight at the Knight Agency Chat.
July 20, 2006
Someone else for a change
So last year sometime, I started hearing about this girl named Lauren Barnholdt. I heard about her a lot. She was near my age and, like me, she’d sold her first novel on the strength of its partial. She also hooked up with her agent to write a Writer’s Digest Guide to the YA novel, [...]
July 19, 2006
Book Launch Slideshow
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Enjoy… more to come, after I chill out for a bit!
