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Marni Bates

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Website

http://marnibates.com/

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MarniBates

Genre

Young Adult, Nonfiction

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Meg Cabot, Gordon Korman, Julie Andrews Edwards ...more

Member Since

November 2011

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Marni Bates' autobiography MARNI (part of HCI's Louder Than Words series) was on the New York Public Library Stuff for the Teen Age 2010 List. She then signed a five book deal with KTeen. Her first YA novel, AWKWARD, has been optioned by the Disney Channel as a made-for-TV movie and translated into several languages. Her latest YA novel DIAL EM FOR MURDER is with Merit Press.

In her free time she can be found reading romance novels, hiking, singing really loudly (and off-key) in public and watching copious amounts of television--strictly for artistic inspiration, of course. ...more

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Marni Bates's Blog

Small Confession, Big Adventure!

Hey everyone!

So you might have noticed that I’ve been extra quiet lately. I haven’t been posting as much on social media or discussing my writing or—and I do feel truly guilty about this—responding to messages from my absolutely amazing fans.

I wish I had a good explanation that would justify all of this, but the truth is that I’ve been lost in my own head lately. And not in a fun, oooh-I-can’t-wai

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Marni Bates’s books

Average rating: 3.78 · 10,482 ratings · 1,122 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	Awkward (Smith High, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 5,133 ratings — published 2011 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Decked with Holly 3.78 avg rating — 2,643 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Invisible (Smith High, #2) 3.70 avg rating — 926 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Notable (Smith High, #3) 3.79 avg rating — 690 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Awkwardly Ever After (Smith High, #4) 3.57 avg rating — 430 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dial Em for Murder 3.21 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marni: My True Story of Stress, Hair-Pulling, and Other Obsessions 3.43 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zűrzavar a vonal végén 3.76 avg rating — 74 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Louder Than Words: The First Collection: 3 True Stories of Ordinary Girls with Extraordinary Lives by Marni Bates (Goodreads Author), Chelsey Shannon, Emily Smucker (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Magical Mayhem by Douglas Rees (Editor), Laurie McLean (Editor), Mark Williams 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Smith High (4 books)
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Dial Em for Murder (2 books)
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Quotes by Marni Bates (?)

“You don't have to be anyone but yourself.”
― Marni Bates , Awkward

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“That's always the worst: the not knowing. Because then you're stuck with a hundred questions no one can answer.”
― Marni Bates, Awkward

tags: curiosity, mackenzie-wellesley

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“...I never would have seen Chelsea reach up, take Logan's face in her hands, and kiss him. So the off again was definitely on again. And I knew then that Patrick was very wrong about my heart, because if it had actually been an encyclopedia I could have watched it all with perfect composure.”
― Marni Bates, Awkward

tags: heartbreak

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Marni’s Quotes

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
― Meg Cabot

tags: writing

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“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
― Carter Crocker

tags: misattributed-a-a-milne

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