Bio: Kody Keplinger
Name: Kody Keplinger
'10 Book Title: THE DUFF (Designated Ugly Fat Friend)
Publisher: Little Brown/Poppy
Favorite Bit of Writing Advice: Don't write to publish. Write because you love it.
Favorite and Least Favorite Part of Writing: I love getting to know my characters, and I really, really loathe writer's block. Don't we all?
Outline or Let it Fly?: I totally just let it fly. When I hit the last few chapters, I outline a little, but I have been in the middle of books before without knowing how I wanted to end it. I'm super character driven. Plot is second to me.
Five Things About Me:
1.) I'm a new college freshman majoring in Writing at Ithaca College.
2.) I'm a HUGE fan of Paramore. They are my all-time favorite band.
3.) My favorite movie is Cruel Intentions. OMG, isn't it brilliant?
4.) My celebrity crush is Ed Westwick, aka Chuck Bass on Gossip Girl. He is amazing!
5.) I was born legally blind in both eyes. So my vision is really bad, but not completely non-existent.
Synopsis:
Seventeen-year-old Bianca knows she’s the Duff (the designated ugly, fat friend). So when Wesley, a notorious womanizer, approaches her at a party she knows he wants to score with one-or both-of her hot friends. God, the man-whore’s arrogance really pisses her off! But Bianca needs to escape from some personal drama, like her mom’s abandonment and her dad’s denial, and a steamy fling with Wesley seems like the perfect distraction. Bianca makes it clear she’s only using Wesley, as if he cares. He’ll sleep with anything that moves after all. Unfortunately, the enemies-with-benefits plan totally backfires.
When her mom files for divorce and her father stumbles into a downward spiral of drinking and depression, Wesley proves to be a surprisingly good listener, and Bianca finds out that his family is pretty screwed up, too. As sickening as it sounds, she has to admit that she and Wesley are a lot alike. Soon she becomes jealous of the pretty girls he flirts with and his cocky grin begins to grow on her. Suddenly Bianca realizes-with absolute horror-that she’s falling for the guy she thought she hated.