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Mike Jung

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Mike Jung has trouble writing about himself in third person, which is probably why his goofy little debut MG novel Geeks, Girls & Secret Identities (forthcoming from Arthur A. Levine Books in fall 2012) is written in first person. Mike has these delusions about writing picture books (even though it makes his head hurt to try) but his wheelhouse probably is middle-grade fiction, especially when it’s about silly things like robots, superheroes, monsters and zombie squirrels. Stuff he can just make up without doing any research, in other words.

Mike lives across the bridge from San Francisco with his wife, who generously tolerates his weirdness; his daughter, who despite her callow youth is probably smarter and more socially functional than...more

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Blurbs are really fun, yo

Seriously, aren’t they? Here’s something I didn’t know – you can actually get two blurbs from the same person! One that’s like the official blurb that might go on the actual book jacket, and one that’s the unofficial blurb that really won’t work on the book jacket for a variety of reasons but is so flipping awesome that you wanna use it somehow anyway. Such it is with this unofficial (or maybe... read more »

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Geeks, Girls and Secret Identities
by Mike Jung (Goodreads Author), Mike Maihack (Illustrations)

5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012

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Mike Jung wrote a new blog post: Blurbs are really fun, yo Blurbs are really fun, yo Fans of Matthew Cody’s POWERLESS will find much to like about GEEKS, GIRLS, AND SECRET IDENTITIES. Hey look, I wrote my own blurb… Seriously, aren’t... read more »
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Mike Jung added: The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists by Norman Partridge read in May, 2012	My rating:
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Mike Jung marked as to-read: King (Prophecy, #3) by Ellen Oh (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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