Most news, including events, can be found at my blog: http://gabriellezevin.tumblr.com.
For sundry musings about writing, life, etc., try the old school letter blog I keep with my fellow author/friend, Carolyn Mackler, at www.dearwriter.tumblr.com. You can even send me a letter here (www.dearwriter.tumblr.com/submit) or ask a question (www.dearwriter.tumblr.com/ask).
Old News (and there isn't all that much of it) can be found here .
Events information can be found here .
December 2008 - only one year since its publication, MEMOIRS OF A TEENAGE AMNESIAC adpoted onto 7! state reading lists: Delaware, Missouri, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Texas. A very heartfelt thanks to all the hardworking people who put these programs together.
November 2008 - Production begins in Tokyo on the Japanese language film version of MEMOIRS OF A TEENAGE AMNESIAC starring Maki Horikita, Kenichi Matsuyama, and Yuya Tegoshi.
November 2008 - LOVE IS HELL, a YA anthology from Harper Collins with five novellas about love by Justine Larbalestier, Melissa Marr, Laurie Faria Stolarz, Scott Westerfeld, and Gabrielle is available for purchase at Amazon , Barnes & Noble , or your favorite independent bookstore .
November 2008 - MEMOIRS OF A TEENAGE AMNESIAC wins the Delaware Blue Hen Teen Book Award -- Thanks, Delaware.
October 2008 - Gabrielle sells a new ADULT novel to Grove/Atlantic, THE HOLE WE'RE IN. According to Publisher's Marketplace, it's " about three decades in the life of a downwardly mobile family of five, and their unique struggles with credit card debt, ambition, materialism, rationalization, denial and the war in Iraq."
June 2009 - MEMOIRS out in a fancy paperback edition featuring an interview with me, playlists, and other sundries.
MEMOIRS on International Reading Association's Young Adult Choices list.
March 2009 - MEMOIRS nominated for the South Carolina Young Adult Book Award
February 2009 - ELSEWHERE wins the Connecticut Nutmeg Children's Book Award -- thanks so much, Connecticut librarians, teachers, and readers!
MEMOIRS nominated for the Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award and the Arizona Grand Canyon Reader Award. MEMOIRS is now on 9 state reading lists.
ELSEWHERE nominated for the Heartland Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.
Also, on the evening of March 25th, I will be part of a panel discussion about YA literature at the Manhattan JCC with authors Coe Booth ( Tyrell , Kendra ) and Lisa Greenwald ( My Life in Pink and Green ). We'll all be signing, too. More details to come so check back. (If you want to attend, I believe you'll have to RSVP.)
January 2009 - ELSEWHERE named to the American Library Association's Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults list
