Gayle Forman's Blog, page 18

well, lookee here

I think this is my very first award for fiction. Thank you, NAIBA! Um, note how many of the authors live in Brooklyn.

Which reminds me, BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL IS THIS SUNDAY! Here's the link to the youth schedule.

i'm hungry

It's not every day that I read a book about a super model. It's definitely not every day I blog about one. But then again,  Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves, well, let's just say this is no size zero tale, shall we. For one, this is a story about a sort of dorky, never-fit-in girl, who, after being "discovered" by a modeling scout who tells her she could be the next Giselle—if she lost a third of her body weight, basically, goes on to...

come ye all to the brooklyn book festival!

It's September and that means one thing. Okay, two things. Time to get new boots. And the Brooklyn Book Festival.

I'm crazy excited this year because I've been asked to participate. Which is a huge honor for a Brooklyn Writer Girl. But is an especially huge honor for me because three years ago, before my first novel, Sisters in Sanity was due to come out, having been to the first evah Brooklyn Book Festival the year before and LOVING it, I'd asked my old publisher about participating. Alas...

baby steps

A couple of very exciting things happened in the last couple of days. Exciting by the relative terms of my life as a shut-in (ahem, stay-at-home mom) with two young ones. And if I have not pounded this point enough, I will pound it again: There is no job harder than fulltime momhood. It should pay in the six figures; it is that hard!

Anyhow, the exciting things. The first was, I had a whole entire day to myself. Like 12 hours. I basically told the husband I was going AWOL and Monday morning I ...