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N.L. BELARDES is a journalist, blogger and
videographer. He writes several media blogs, including Noveltown's Paperback
Writer and ABC23's Nick 2.0. His work has appeared on the homepage of
CNN.com and other news sites all over America. His novel,
Lords: Part One, describes the infamous Lords of Bakersfield. They still
creep the city long after they and a 1977 Central California dust storm
ravaged the area. N.L. welcomes humorous notes and news tips to his
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CHERRY CHEVA (full name
Cherry Chevapravatdumrong) was born in Columbus, OH, and raised in Ann
Arbor, MI. She majored in psychology at Yale and earned a J.D. from NYU Law
School, then moved to Los Angeles where she currently works as a
writer/producer on the Fox TV show "Family Guy." Cherry is the coauthor of
It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One
with fellow "Family Guy" writer Alex Borstein. Her first YA novel,
She's So Money, was published by
HarperTeen in February 2008.
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MEGAN CRANE
graduated from Vassar College and got her M.A. and Ph.D. in literature from the University of York in England. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on AIDS literature, mostly so she could wallow in her obsession with the remarkable multi-media artist David Wojnarowicz and her idol, the bitter and hilarious David Feinberg. After many years in the rain and subject to the whim of seasons, she followed the sun to Los Angeles, where she lives with a dog, a cat, two crazy kittens, and an artist named Jeff. She is the author of four novels—Names My Sisters Call Me, Frenemies, Everyone Else's Girl and English as a Second Language—and has contributed to the anthologies It's A Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life in Your Twenties and Everything I Needed to Know About Being A Girl I Learned From Judy Blume.
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When KIM CULBERTSON's not writing for teenagers, she's teaching them. Kim has taught high school English, creative writing and drama for over ten years. Her short fiction has appeared in the teen literary magazine Cicada. Her first novel, Songs for a Teenage Nomad, won the 2008 Ben Franklin Award for Best New Voice in Children's/YA Fiction and the Silver Medal for the
2008 IPPY Awards in YA Fiction. Kim lives in the Northern California foothills with her husband and four-year-old daughter.
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STEPHANIE KUEHNERTgot her start writing bad poetry about unrequited love and razor blades in
eighth grade. In high school, she discovered punk rock and produced several
D.I.Y. feminist 'zines. Stephanie received her MFA in creative writing from
Columbia College Chicago. Her debut novel,
I Wanna Be Your Joey
Ramone—a raw, edgy emotional tale about growing up punk and
living to tell—is titled after a Sleater-Kinney song and will be published
by MTV Books in July 2008. It has been hailed as "a wonderfully written and
evocative story of a mother and daughter parted by circumstance and joined
by music" by Irvine Welsh, "acidly incisive and full-out entertaining" by
Booklist, and "a rich, muscular story" by Bust magazine. |
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ALYSON NOËL is the
award-winning author of the teen novels
Faking 19,
Art Geeks and Prom Queens,
Laguna Cove,
Kiss and Blog,
Saving Zoë,
the anthology
Fist Kiss (Then Tell),
Cruel Summer,
and the upcoming Evermore series (2009). Her books have been
chosen for NYLA’s “Book of Winter 2006 award,” NYPL’s prestigious “Books for
the Teen Age” catalog, nominated for YALSA’s “Teens Top Ten award,” selected
for Teen Reads “Best Books of 2007,”finaled in the National Reader’s Choice
Award, chosen as a “Favorite Read” for Canada’s largest book retailer,
Indigo/Coles, and featured on the CBS Early Show. Her debut adult novel,
Fly Me to the Moon, is being translated
into French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. An Orange County
native, Alyson has lived in both Mykonos and Manhattan, and now resides in
Laguna Beach, CA, where she’s working on her next book.
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REBECCA WOOLF has worked as a freelance
writer since age sixteen, contributing to publications including MSN,
Nerve.com, Babycenter, 19 Magazine UK, Huffington Post, and Grace
Ormonde Wedding Style. Woolf is the author of the memoir
Rockabye: From Wild to
Child (Seal Press, 2008), as well as the popular parenting
blogs
Girl's Gone Child and Babble.com's
Straight from the Bottle. She lives in Los
Angeles with her husband and son.
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ALEXA YOUNG spent the first several
years of her professional life working in the music industry—for the
legendary Capitol Records and the irreverent trade rag HITS. She
subsequently worked as an editor for the now-defunct teen magazine JUMP,
as well as for the #1 women’s fitness magazine in the country, SHAPE.
As a freelance writer, she’s contributed to a number of national consumer
magazines, including Marie Claire, O: The Oprah Magazine and
Family Circle. She holds a bachelor's degree in Literature/Writing from
the University of California, San Diego, and lives in the Los Angeles area
with her husband, son and dog.
Frenemies (HarperTeen, 2008)—no
relation to Megan Crane’s Frenemies (weird though, huh?)—is her first
novel, and it’s been translated into French and German. The second book in
the series, Faketastic, is scheduled for a January 2009 release.
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