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Commercial Interlude: November Events

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I’m breaking into my carefully cultivated inspirational space where novel ideas soar through the air and whisper in our ears while we sleep to tell you that I will be out and about in the world two times this month—

…not including all the places in New York City where I write and where you might be able to find me if you were so inclined, though please don’t go looking, because sometimes I wear ridiculous writing outfits in public and stare into space and maybe talk to myself and wear a writing scarf on my head and/or spill tea on myself and it’s best you don’t witness that…

—and here are those two places:

Sunday, November 6, 3:30–5pm
Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing 
Inquiring Minds Bookstore

200 Main Street
Saugerties, New York 12477
845-246-5775

With Susannah Appelbaum (author of the Poisons of Caux trilogy)

Tuesday, November 15, 7-8pm
Teen Author Event: A Series of One-Minute Themed Speed Readings!
The Huntington Public Library

338 Main Street
Huntington, New York 11743
www.thehuntingtonlibrary.org

With Matt Blackstone (author of Scary Scene in a Scary Movie), Selene Castrovilla (author of The Girl Next Door), Christopher Grant (author of Teenie), and Gae Polisner (author of The Pull of Gravity)

Come if you can!

A Different Kind of Reading Tomorrow: Dolphin Bookshop, Port Washington, NY

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Hi! Fresh off my writing existential crisis, this is where I’ll be tomorrow:

This event is going to be something else. I’m there with six other (wildly talented!) teen authors, and instead of doing our reading at the beginning of the night—so if you can’t make it on time, you miss it—we’ll be doing short bursts of readings throughout the night.

They will be about one minute for each author.

Each one will be different.

They are themed.

And—if we read too long—we get dinged.

(No joke! There’s a bell! Gae promises she will use it!)

This event is all thanks to the incredible organizer Gae Polisner, and I’m just so thrilled she asked me to take part.

So come see Matt Blackstone (A Scary Scene in a Scary Movie), Christopher Grant (Teenie), Michael Northrop (Trapped), Gae Polisner (The Pull of Gravity), Léna Roy (Edges), Arlaina Tibensky (And Then Things Fall Apart) and me (Imaginary Girls, but uh you know that), tomorrow at the Dolphin Bookshop in Port Washington, New York. We’ll be there from 5:30 to 9, and you can stay as long as you like.

And seriously, if you get there any time between 5:30pm and 9pm you’ll hear a reading. There will be no repeats! I have also heard rumor of cupcakes?

I’ve chosen the bits I’m reading… selected from throughout Imaginary Girls, not just the first chapter (which is what I normally read at events). So you’ll get to hear me read pieces I’ve never ever read out loud in front of humans before! These are pieces about Chloe and Ruby, of course, and also about their parents, about London, and about Owen.

Also, this is my first book event on Long Island… the place where I was born. I only lived there as a baby, but I remember visiting my grandparents there when I was young. Now I get to go back. Hope to see some of you there!

Reading My Book in My Neighborhood Library

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I have a favorite branch of the New York Public Library in Manhattan: the Jefferson Market branch on Sixth Avenue in the Village. I love the winding stone stairway, the high ceilings, the cool and airy rooms, and of course the selection of books. They have a great fiction section and a wonderful YA room. The place also has some fascinating history.

I’ve been visiting this particular branch of the library for years—and in fact I’ve blogged about it before.

This branch of the library has felt like home to me for a long time. On days when I feel gloomy or frustrated or stressed I’d find myself walking up Sixth Avenue and making an excuse to go up to the fiction section and just look, just to see what new books were in. (It’s rare I come home without at least one.) Just being inside the library could calm a foul mood within minutes. Sometimes, some days I used to get off the subway on the north end after my day job and go drifting through the stacks and tell myself—silently, it’s a library after all—that I’d be a writer one day and one day a book I wrote would be here. How silly it sounds to tell you that I did that, except here I am typing this and… it’s come true.

I admit I’ve fingered the place in the stacks where I might be one day… and gave a glorious yelp in the children’s room upon finding Dani Noir. I can’t wait for the day I see Imaginary Girls (I hope I hope I hope) in the YA room upstairs.

But tonight Imaginary Girls will be there for sure. And I’ll be with it.

I’m one of the readers at Teen Author Reading Night at the Jefferson Market branch of the library TONIGHT, Wednesday July 6. Here’s the lineup:

JULY 6—TEEN AUTHOR READING NIGHT

6–7:30 pm, Jefferson Market Branch of NYPL, corner of 6th Ave and 10th St

Tara Altebrando, Dreamland Social Club

Matt Blackstone, A Scary Scene in a Scary Movie

Christopher Grant, Teenie

Alissa Grosso, Popular

Sarah Darer Littman, Want to Go Private?

Blake Nelson, Recovery Road

Gae Polisner, The Pull of Gravity

Nova Ren Suma, Imaginary Girls

Melissa Walker, Small Town Sinners

Maybe I’ll see you there?

Interrupting Blog Tour Announcements to Apologize & Mention Some Upcoming Events

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First, I have to say this:

I’m sorry. I’m sorry to my regular blog readers who have zero interest that my book that came out last week and don’t want to keep hearing me talk about it. I’ll be posting the location of my blog tour guest post every weekday through July 1, and I hope you will bear with me and, if you need to take a break from me, come back after. (And a thank-you to all those following my guest posts on the blog tour and supporting me and this book!)

I admit there are some other things I wish I could be blogging about. But I can’t. I absolutely can’t.

What I would like to blog about:

  • How the internet may or may not be ruining me.
  • How my novel may or may not be coming along.
  • How I have decided to handle reading reviews.
  • How solitary an existence you can have in the middle of a crowded city and how strange that is.
  • How much writing has changed for me after being published.
  • How a shy person deals with public events, before and during and after.
  • How I had this big realization this morning and wrote myself a blog post about it that I can’t show you.

But I will not be posting those thoughts anytime soon. Maybe it’s time for an anonymous blog, huh? That’s how this blog started, you know. It was wonderful.

Anyway, I wanted to tell you that I’ll be doing three events in the Hudson Valley—plus a reading in New York City—this summer and I would absolutely love to see you. It helps when people come!

Upcoming Events

Thurs., June 30
Summer Reading Kickoff
Barnes & Noble, Colonie Centre
Albany, NY
518-438-1728
7:00 – TBD p.m. FREE!
I’ll be signing Imaginary Girls at the Albany Barnes & Noble during the “Summer Reading Kickoff” book fair with other YA and children’s authors including Eric Luper, Julia DeVillers, Jennifer Roy, James Preller, Jackie Morse Kessler, Sarah Darer Littman, Rose Kent, Aimee Ferris, Ryan Smitherson, and more. 
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Wed., July 6
July Teen Author Reading Night
Jefferson Market Library, NY NY
425 Avenue of the Americas (at 10th St.)
6:00-7:30 p.m. FREE!
I’ll be reading from Imaginary Girls at the Jefferson Market branch of the New York Public Library along with other YA writers including Tara Altebrando, Matt Blackstone, Christopher Grant, Alissa Grosso, Sarah Darer Littman, Blake Nelson, Gae Polisner, and Melissa Walker. 
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Mon., July 11
Barnes & Noble Reading and Signing
B&N Ulster Plaza
Kingston, NY 12401
845-336-0590
6:30 p.m. FREE!
I will be doing a reading from Imaginary Girls and signing books at the Barnes & Noble in Kingston, New York.
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Sun., Aug. 14
Hudson Valley YA Society Event
Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck, NY
Montgomery Row, Rhinebeck
845-876-0509
4:00 p.m., FREE!
As a part of the Hudson Valley YA Society series, I’ll be reading and signing Imaginary Girls at 4:00 p.m. at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck along with author Micol Ostow, who will be reading and signing her fantastic new YA novel family.  You can RSVP on Facebook here.

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There we go! Thank you, kind people. And thank you to all the wonderful people who bought Imaginary Girls and sent me photos for my collection and sent nice emails and tweeted nice tweets and everything and I appreciate you and thank you.

Want to See Me in Person This Month?

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There are two places where you can see me in person this month—unless you’re stalking me at my café, in which case, yikes, say hello or something.

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Wednesday, May 18

twi-ny’s 10th Anniversary Party

I’ll be reading from Imaginary Girls at this event to celebrate the anniversary of This Week in New York: The Insider’s Guide to the City. Here’s the lineup so you know what time I’ll be reading. Did I tell you this event is FREE?

7:00: Andrew Giangola, The Weekend Starts on Wednesday

7:15: Megan Reilly with James Mastro

7:45: Nova Ren Suma, Imaginary Girls

8:00: Paula Carino and the Sliding Scale

8:30: Dean Haspiel, Billy Dogma, Street Code

8:45: Kyle Smith, 85A

9:00: Evan Shinners

Thank you to twi-ny’s founder Mark Rifkin for inviting me to take part in this celebration. I’m honored!

Where: Fontana’s, 105 Eldridge Street (between Grand & Broome Streets) New York, NY

When: Wed. May 18, 7pm-9:30pm

FREE!

www.twi-ny.com

www.fontanasnyc.com

You can RSVP on Facebook here.

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Monday, May 23

NYC Teen Author Carnival

I’ll be one of the authors at this year’s NYC Teen Author Carnival during BEA week. Here’s the full lineup of authors. If you don’t come for me, come for them (and please excuse me while I run over to Gayle Forman and tell her how much I love her books… have you read Where She Went yet? Aaaah!).

Thank you to the organizers of the carnival Devyn Burton, Mitali Dave, and Korianne Way for including me!

Where: Mulberry Street Library, 10 Jersey Street (between Lafayette & Mulberry Streets) New York, NY

When: Mon. May 23, 4pm-7pm

FREE!

http://teenauthorcarnival.blogspot.com/

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I hope to add a couple more events over the summer—in New York City and/or in the Hudson Valley, and I’ll let you know when I know.