Hi! For the month of September, yours truly and my novel GOOD ENOUGH (HarperCollins '08) are the featured author and novel for READERGIRLZ! Go to http://readergirlz.com/issue.html for more info!

I'll also be doing a live chat with Readergirlz on Thurs. Sept. 18th at 6 PM PST/9PM EST. Below are more Good Enough links for this month...

Check out Readergirlz' youtube channel, RGZ! They're here at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/readergirlz

You can see my Readergirlz youtube interview (with me jammin' on my fiddle) here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqQ6jQ_SrCY

For the live chat and to discuss GOOD ENOUGH in this month's Readergirlz forum, join their myspace group forum here:

http://groups.myspace.com/readergirlz

For an introductory roundtable discussion of GOOD ENOUGH, go to Little Willow's blog featuring several members of the Readergirlz teen lit advisory council plus Readergirlz diva Lorie Ann Grover (thanks Little Willow!):

http://slayground.livejournal.com/411684.html

Much thanks to the Readergirlz divas and teen lit advisory council! Here's a picture of me, Readergirlz diva Justina Chen Headley, and blogger Little Willow:

In other news, check out this interview I did with totally awesome YA books blogger Melissa:

http://mango-firefly.livejournal.com/33223.html

Here's a pic of Melissa and I at the SCBWI summer conference: (thanks Melissa!)

In other news, GOOD ENOUGH was selected, along with my good friend C. Leigh Purtill's "ALL ABOUT VEE" (Razorbill '08), for the 2009 California Collection for High Schools. California Readers is a group of educators, librarians, authors, artists, parents, book sellers, and business representatives whose main goal is to connect California authors and artists with students and teachers in the Los Angeles area. The guidelines in which to be selected for this honor ranges from having to be a California author or illustrator to meeting the criteria of excellent literature to raising awareness about issue important to California. Thank you, California Readers for this awesome honor!

For more info, go here:

http://www.californiareaders.org/

http://www.californiareaders.org/collections/index.htm 

In the meantime, I have spent the month of August either glued to my sofa watching The Olympics (USA! USA!) or glued to my chair, working on some new projects. If you're curious as to what I've been working since GOOD ENOUGH, well, it's a lot of stuff. I have to write a one-act play for my TV agents because as a TV writer, you always have to have a fresh original "spec writing sample" for your agents to shop around to various TV shows in order to get you a TV staffing job or writing assignment. (Think of the spec script/play as your "calling card.") I am also working on my next YA novel, and I am in the brainstorming stages of a possible middle grade series and a middle grade novel (stand alone).

Speaking of writing, I hear my chair calling my name. LOL. Time to enter the writing batcave. I hope to see some of you at the Readergirlz live author chat this Thurs. Sept. 18th at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST. I'll remind everyone as we get closer to the date.

Hope everyone is having a great Labor Day weekend!

xo

Paula