Dear Readers,
I am SO SO SO excited to finally share the cover of my first book DEAR TEEN ME, co-edited with Miranda Kenneally. I love this cover. I have been practically holding my breath waiting to show everyone. And here it is! I hope you love it as much as I do!
Zest Books, November 2012.
Can you guess who the authors on the cover are from their teen photos?
Here is the description from Amazon:
Dear Teen Me includes advice from over 70 YA authors (including Lauren Oliver, Ellen Hopkins, and Nancy Holder, to name a few) to their teenage selves. The letters cover a wide range of topics, including physical abuse, body issues, bullying, friendship, love, and enough insecurities to fill an auditorium. So pick a page, and find out which of your favorite authors had a really bad first kiss? Who found true love at 18? Who wishes he’d had more fun in high school instead of studying so hard? Some authors write diary entries, some write letters, and a few graphic novelists turn their stories into visual art. And whether you hang out with the theater kids, the band geeks, the bad boys, the loners, the class presidents, the delinquents, the jocks, or the nerds, you’ll find friends–and a lot of familiar faces–in the course of Dear Teen Me.
It’s not out until November, but you can get your pre-order on! DEAR TEEN ME is currently available for pre-order on Amazon and Books-A-Million with more online retailers coming soon. You can also add Dear Teen Me on Goodreads and LibraryThing!
Also be sure to follow our publisher Zest Books on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest!
Miranda and I can’t wait to share this book with you. As an extra bonus, I’m going to give y’all the OFFICIAL list of contributors and the titles of their pieces below. Be sure to go check out their blogs and websites and Twitters and give them some love!
Dear Teen Me List of Contributors & Table of Contents
1. E. Kristin Anderson—Want. Take. Have
2. Jessica LeeAnderson—Contents Under Pressure
3. Tom Angleberger—Shhhhhh!
4. Sean Beaudoin—Frame Me and Nail Me to the Wall
5. CharlesBenoit—Reinventing Me
6. Robin Benway—9 Things You Need to Know
7. Ilsa J. Bick—The Knife
8. Marke Bieschke—Dance Dance Revolution
9. Joseph Bruchac—First Kiss . . .ish
10. Jessica Burkhart—Trust Is as Important as Love
11. Josh A. Cagan—Thank You, Oily Pizza
12. Riley Carney—Nothing’s Impossible
13. Tera Lynn Childs—The Future Isn’t Everything
14. Jessica Corra—The Principal’s Office
15. Heather Davis—Raising Me
16. Daniel Ehrenhaft—Getting Stood Up
17. Laura Ellen—Losing Your Sight Shouldn’t Mean Losing Your Rights
18. Beth Fantaskey—I Hope You Dance—to the Theme from Bonanza
19. Caridad Ferrer—Jekyll & Hyde
20. Michael Griffo—Be Honest with Yourself
21. Janet Gurtler—The Skinny Girl
22. Kersten Hamilton—It’s About to Get Worse
23. Bethany Hegedus—Going All the Way
24. Geoff Herbach—You Are the Electric Boogaloo
25. Faith Erin Hicks—No Calls from Spielberg Yet
26. Nancy Holder—When Dance Was Your World
27. K. A. Holt—Lois Lowry and the Space-Time Continuum vs. Boys
28. P. J. Hoover—Seeping Through the Cracks
29. Ellen Hopkins—Finding Your Voice
30. Stacey Jay—Who Needs Luck?
31. Carrie Jones—Seizures
32. Mike Jung—Regarding Your Commendable Decision to Live
33. Stasia WardKehoe—Getting Past the Fear
34. Tara Kelly—Bad Girl
35. Miranda Kenneally—Pick Up the Phone and Call Him Back. Right. Now.
36. Stephanie Kuehnert—He Broke More Than Your Heart
37. Mary Lindsey—Hope Until the Last Second
38. Nikki Loftin—The Ramifications of Mouthing Off to Cute Boys
39. Katherine Longshore—The Best Days of Our Lives? Really?
40. Ken Lowery—Winging It
41. Kekla Magoon—The Balancing Act
42. Mari Mancusi—What the Bully Stole
43. Gretchen McNeil—All the World’s a Stage
44. Jodi Meadows—The Pursuit of (Moments of) Happiness
45. Saundra Mitchell—This Is Not Your Story
46. Hannah Moskowitz—Get Better
47. Jenny Moss—What I Really Want
48. Sarah Ockler—Dancing with the Dead
49. Lauren Oliver & Elizabeth Miles—Best Friends Forever (for Real)
50. Stephanie Pellegrin—Just Be Yourself
51. Mitali Perkins—First Kiss
52. Cheryl Rainfield—Keep Hold of Your Strength
53. Dave Roman—Special Delivery from Your Excellent Future
54. Jess Rothenberg—Stop Obsessing, Kiss That Guy, and Party Like It’s 1999
55. Jennifer Rush—All Roads Lead Somewhere
56. Amy Kathleen Ryan—Smile!
57. Tom Ryan—Sing It Out
58. Leila Sales—I’m Not Going to Give You Any Good Advice
59. Cynthia Leitich Smith— Friends in Dark Places
60. JessicaSpotswood—Finding Him
61. Erika Stalder—Boys, Boys, Boys…
62. Rhonda Stapleton—Chunky
63. Mariko Tamaki—Keeping Quiet
64. Don Tate—Stolen Jeans, Smoke Rings, and Self-Esteem
65. Melissa Walker—You’re So Right But So Wrong
66. Tracy White—100% True, Guaranteed
67. Jo Whittemore—All Kinds of Sexy
68. Sara Zarr—What Is a Friend?
69. Jennifer Ziegler—Facing Facts: Makeovers Don’t Change a Thing
Yaaaaaaaay!
So excited for you and Miranda!! Even more excited for the readers who’ll you’ll touch forever!! Keeping it real, ladies!! Way to go!
I think I have read most of the Teen Me letters and I think they are amazing. A big thank-you to those authors brave enough to share them with us.
I’m so excited for you guys!!!! I can’t wait to read the book and collect all those signatures!
I’ve only read one of the letters in the anthology, but it made me cry. Looking forward to this.