Adrienne Maria Vrettos's Blog

Toooooo many blogs! And only one me. I blog at www.AdrienneMariaVrettos.com

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The line up of authors and events this year is just bananas! Check it out:

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For my part, on Friday March 18th I will be on a panel that has me kind of freaking out with fangirl-ness:

Symposium (South Court, 42nd Street)

5:00 – 6:00 PM: Under the Influences: Discussing Influences on YA Fiction

Authors:
Libba Bray
Susane Colasanti
Barry Lyga
Carolyn Mackler
Lena Roy
Adrienne Maria Vrettos
Maryrose Wood

Moderator: Barry Lyga

Hope to see you there!

Adrienne

I haven't blogged here -- or anywhere for that matter -- in ages! Do you remember the story about the king who wouldn't speak and no one could understand why, and in the end it turned out that he couldn't think of anything to say? That's me and blogging! When you blog often you can just happily yammer on about ANYTHING. But when, like me, you blog almost never it become like this THING. Like I can't just post about something random like the fact that I've just discovered Newman's Own Licorice and now they are the only thing I want to eat ever again. No, if it's going be my first post in almost a year I get this worrisome feeling that it has to be about something wicked important. Or something timely. But so much has happened! I had a baby! He's super cute and smells heavenly except when he needs a diaper change. I finished a book! It's called BURNOUT and it pubs in September. I hate winter! It's the pits. And my boots weigh seven pounds each and I curse them with every subway step.
So there it is. I've broken my silence with licorice and babies and winter hatred.
Happy New Year!!
xoxo
AMV

I'm over at Once Upon a Bookcase this week, with a guest post  about writing SKIN, and how sometimes characters barge their way into books and won't leave.

And, on a totally unrelated note, does it bum anyone else out that everything good on TV happens on Sunday night?  Mad Men, True Blood, Entourage.  What about the rest of the week?  A DVR of Sunday night's goodies can only last so long!  

So maybe it's time to Netflix some new shows?  We did The Wire last summer.  What other shows should we ...

Wait, can you bask in the glow of a lobster roll?  That makes sense, right?  A little bit?  Maybe if it were radioactive.  Or on fire.  Or, in this case, glowing with deliciousness.  

We were on vacation last week, up in New Hampshire (crickets, green green grass, cold watermelon, tiny frogs, and a visit to the 'Swap Shack' at the town dump) and Maine (lobster rolls, shell collecting, steamers, more green green grass, and sand castles).  I had so much great hang-out time with my folks, got to ...

Guess what?!

No, no, I mean besides the fact that the Brooklyn Ice Cream factory in Greenpoint opened for the season.

This is even BETTER than ice cream -- I'm opening for David Levithan and John Green Monday night at Borders!

They'll be reading from the amazing Will Grayson, Will Grayson and I'll be trying not to pee from nervousness.  Oh, and also I'll be reading from the Exile of Gigi Lane.

Kind of freaking out here,
XOXO
AMV

Details:
Monday, April 12th
7PM (they recommend you come early)
Borders 
46...

It's out, it's out, it's out!!  In actual bookstores, like all those other real books!

And if you live in New York, please come to the book launch party at 7:30PM tonight at Word bookstore in Greenpoint!  There will be cupcakes, and giveaways, and general happiness.

xoxo
AMV

 So, last year our porch became an 'outdoor room', thanks to the new building that went up next door and walled in our precious outdoor space, leaving only a patch of sky.  All last summer the flowers I'd planted, the thrift-store chair finds, and the cute green watering can I'd gotten for the little one became covered in dust, splattered with plaster, and riddled with nails and other random construction site garbage.  It was a bummer.

 But the guys who built the place next door came over...

Oh my head!*  It's been so long since I've posted.  Last time I wrote I was risking life and limb at Kindling Words in Vermont.  That was in JANUARY!  That's practically last year!

And now it's this year, which means that my new book is finally finally finally finally coming out.  THE EXILE OF GIGI LANE hits bookstores (don't you just picture someone driving by in a beat up Corolla, hurling copies of my book at bookstore windows?  No?  I guess it's just me then) on April 6th!  Which happens...

Here I am in beautiful Essex Vermont for a writing conference!

Here's my adorable room:


I got here early in the day, things don't kick off until 5PM or so, and I decided to go meet my good friend Dave for lunch. It was a $20 cab ride, though well worth it to spend an hour chatting with the best people in the world. I decided that, since it was a beautiful sunny day, that I would just navigate the bus system back to the Inn to save some money.

Have you ever been to Vermont?

If the answer is no...