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Correction: Brookline Library event on Sunday is changed to 2PM! Not 1 PM.

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Tonight, 6 pm, I'm reading at Jefferson Market Library. My only NYC appearance for The Treasure Map of Boys. Details here.

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Please come out and see me. Librarians and teachers: bring your teenagers!

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The other day I finished Liar, by my friend Justine Larbalestier. I have loved JL's other books, in particular the witty, exuberant and utterly imaginative How to Ditch Your Fairy -- and Liar is SPECTACULAR. Amazing plot twists. 

It's all about this girl, Micah, whose boyfriend has disappeared. Or been murdered. But was he really her boyfriend?And was she really where she says she was that night? 
Nothing is stable in the story, because Micah is a liar. On a grand scale.Only: she promises to...

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Librarians and Bookselllers:

My lovely publisher, Random House, is sending me on tour week of Sept 13 on, and they've opened up some more spots in the schmoozy-type dinners in Dallas and Boston. 
If you're an area bookseller or teen/children's librarian, and want to come eat some food with me and talk books, I'd love to meet you.
To get a spot, email  jshoffel @ randomhouse.com  (Jessica)  and she'll give you the scoop. Put "E. Lockhart Dinner" and the name of your city (Dallas or Boston).  
She's h

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Little bits:

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks is out in paperback! 
Check out Lauren Myracle's TTYL series BFF quizzie fun book.
John and Hank Green have a game show.  It's called Truth or Fail. 
Wednesday Sept 9th I'll be at Jefferson Market Library in New York City with a great line-up of fellow writers. 6pm. 
Sunday, Sept 13th I'll be at Brookline Public Library in Brookline, MA.  1:00 p.m.Brookline Public Library
361 Washington Street
Brookline, MA 02466

Wednesday, Sept 16th I'll be

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Teens: For the Girls Life Disreputable History book club stuff, click here. You can also send in your own pranks and amaze everyone!

And for instructions on how to throw a mad PRANK SLEEPOVER, go here.
Then, Random Buzzers is giving away a ton of audiobooks of The Treasure Map of Boys for people who write in questions to Ask Ruby. Go here to enter.
Oh, and the TEENS TOP TEN voting has begun!  If you are a teenager, you can vote. And you SHOULD. Because this is actually a chance to make sure your fa

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Several things:

The Treasure Map of Boys launch has RUBY writing an advice column. Yes, even though she's a leper and a famous slut. Yes, even though she's certifiably mental and has been noboyfriend for 37 weeks. She is telling actual, non-fictional human beings what to do! The latest questions and answers are here (scroll down to the bottom). 



For librarians and booksellers, here is an adorable, free, downloadable "shelf talker" for the Roo books.
Libba Bray in a cow suit.  Her book, GOING BOVINE

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Are you a Boston or Chicago area YA or children's librarian? I am coming to both cities in Sept. -- on tour for The Treasure Map of Boys.

There is one spot in each city at a schmoozy librarian and bookseller dinner. I would love to meet you!
So: Send me an email at elockhart@ earthlink.net by THE END OF TODAY, FRIDAY, and tell me in two sentences about your work as a librarian! I doubt there'll be too many entries, but if there are more than one for each city, my publicist and I will put names in

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New cover for Larbalestier's Liar! 

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