I usually tell people that my first piece of writing was the essay "Horrible Mention" which appears in Teen Angst? Naaah...:


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Thanks everyone who has stepped up and bought my new book The Other Normals!


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UPDATE: Thank you everyone for making Comic-Con such a success this year!

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Update 4/21/12: Thanks everyone who came to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books! I had a great time on the "Page and Screen" panel.


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1. Give Us Money: "The Dried Tomato"
   
   A new story from the Barnes & Noble Teen Writing Workshop is up on our online literary journal, Give Us Money. If you are interested in seeing your own work in the journal, come to the next B&N Workshop on July 29th at 5pm, in Brooklyn, NY (run by Sarah MacLean) or Glendale, CA (run by me).


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• Publishers Weekly on the 2011 LATimes Festival of Books
  
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Thanks again to everyone in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, who made my Keyano College Global Speaker Series talk so successful.


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Back in 2010, Focus Features sponsored a contest with Eventful to bring me to high schools across America. Thank you very much to all schools that participated in the "It's Kind of a Funny Story Eventful Program Tour":


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Some critics who have issues with It's Kind of a Funny Story peg it as "Boy, Interrupted", but there is actually a movie called Boy Interrupted, an HBO documentary about the life of Evan Scott Perry, who jumped out a window when he was 15.


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Not a lot of subcultures have definite birthdays, but goth does: February 27, 1981, when an article entitled "The Face Of Punk Gothique" was published Sounds, the UK music paper.


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