July's Author

David LaRochelle has a web site that includes this groovy photo from his teaching years.

Discussion for Absolutely, Positively Not begins Sunday.

This month's book's author

Clicky on the title to be whisked away to Garret Freymann-Weyr's homepage. She gets my vote for Most Easily Misspelled YA Author.

Discussion begins the 15th! Do you have your copy of Stay with Me?

Gene Yang Interview @ Cybils

Gene: I think of American Born Chinese as fiction with autobiography sprinkled in. Parts of the Jin storyline are lifted directly from my junior high experiences. Much of the dialog of the Timmy character, for instance, came from a group of kids that used to torment me and my Asian-American friends. The three strands started off as ideas for three separate stories. Somewhere along the way, I decided to try to bring them together, almost as an intellectual exercise. They're thematically connected, but I wanted connect them in a more concrete way.

His next book comes out in the spring of next year!

Brotherhood 2.0: March 19th: Urban Exploration

Tobin's on the Brotherhood!

(And he has a scarf on, per usual.)

The Cool Crowd

You know, I'd be such a better writer if I could meet up with fabulous YA authors at cafes in NY and write. Er, "write."

Ooo, bask in the Mac Love.

That reminds me of getting together with friends to "study" in college.

At least I have the right computer to become a famous YA author, right?