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Which do you want to hear first?

The good news is that I’ve just signed on with Penguin to write a teen chick lit series called GEEK HIGH. The books will follow girl genius Miranda Bloom as she navigates her way through the thorny high school years. This will be in addition to my regular chick lit novels (TESTING KATE will be out in October, and then look for THE MOMMY WARS in 2007).

The bad news is that now that I’m responsible for writing three books a year, there’s no way in hell I’m going to make my Reading Project goal of reading fifty classics before my thirty-fifth birthday. (I have a little more than six months to go, and so far I've only read 16 RP books. And at least one of those – i.e., THE READER – was a cheat, since it wasn’t actually a classic, but just thrown in to plump up the numbers.) So unless I can figure out a way to actually stop time, there’s no way I’m going to be able to pull off reading thirty-four classics in a mere twenty-five weeks.

I will try to continue posting book reviews now and then (I just finished A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, and it was wonderful), but all goals are out the window.

Posted 19 July 2006 at 07:10 AM