A nice guy named Wesley has started an Official Laurie Halse Anderson Fan Club.

The Syracuse New Times published a well-written cover story about Laurie and her work.

Laurie's next novel, TWISTED, will be published around March 15, 2007. Details of the publicity tour will be posted as soon as they are available.

We've straightened out the email problems here at Writerlady. All updated addresses are at Contact Info.

Laurie's travel and speaking schedule has been updated.

Thank you to ELLEgirl magazine for including PROM in the Dare To Read Bookclub.

FEVER 1793 was named to the YALSA 2006 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults List.

PROM was named to the VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle Grade Reader list.

PROM is out in paperback!

PROM made it to the 2006-2007 Tayshas Reading List, put together by the good folks at the Young Adult Round Table of the Texas Library Association.

Photos from NCTE (National Conference of Teachers of English) have been posted in the journal here, here, here, and here.

The SPEAK DVD is now available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Blockbuster, Netflix, and lots of other places.

PROM has been nominated for a Volunteer State Book award (TN), and a Capitol Choices award (DC).

The SPEAK DVD will be released on Sept. 27, 2005.

Laurie's early thoughts about the SPEAK movie and movie review links are in her journal.

SPEAK has been hopping on and off the New York Times bestseller list, making it as high as #4.

Teachers! Discussion questions and activities have been posted for CATALYST and THANK YOU, SARAH!.

Curriculum unit (grades 5-8) with New York State Standards posted for FEVER 1793.

The first set of PROM discussion questions and activities have been posted.

SPEAK movie information is online.

SPEAK movie will be aired on Showtime and Lifetime channels at 9pm on Monday, September 5, 2005.

PROM has made the New York Times Bestseller List for seven weeks! It was named a BookSense Top Ten Pick and has been nominated for YALSA Best Books, YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant readers, and the 2006 Kentucky Bluegrass Award.

Patricia Newman has posted her article about Laurie.

We've started a SPEAK art gallery. It has original Theo Black artwork, the Teen Titan's cartoon panel, and great SPEAK-based artwork by students at Dos Pueblos High School, Goleta, CA.

Laurie's travel schedule has been updated with details of the PROM tour.

More reviews for PROM have been posted.

Started to post Prom Links.

New Teacher Resources for FEVER 1793.

All Contact Information is online. No, Laurie won't do your homework.

SPEAK Classroom Guides and Resources have been posted.

Laurie's thoughts about College Pressure, the reason she wrote CATALYST, are up.

 

 

Media Requests (interviews, etc.)

Derry Wilkens
Publicist
Penguin Young Readers Group
345 Hudson
New York, NY 10014
PH: 212-414-3671
FAX: 212-414-3393

 

School Visits & Conference Appearances

New contact info for Appearances coming soon.

 

Notes and questions for Laurie
Comments on the website

Laurie cannot answer email sent to this site. There are not enough hours in the day.

However, she reads everything that comes in. Occasionally (when not on deadline) she will post answers to readers' questions in her Journal or on the FAQ. She will only use the first name of the person who wrote the question, in the interests of preserving privacy. If you don't want your name used at all, make sure you write that in your email.

Note to teachers and students - Laurie will not do your homework. Sorry. She has done enough homework in her life. One of the advantages of being middle-aged is No Homework. Old people like Laurie have to pay taxes. That's bad enough.

Email: Comments and Questions

If you want to write to her the old-fashioned way, please use this address. NOTE - This is a new address!:

Laurie Halse Anderson
P.O. Box 906
Mexico, NY 13114

Be patient! Laurie gets a lot of mail and it piles up when she is on the road.

She asks that teachers who are sending many letters at once tell their students that Laurie will be writing one letter to the entire class. When the mail gets very heavy, she sometimes has to respond with a form letter. This is an ugly fact of life.

She begs forgiveness and hopes readers understand. If she didn't do this, she'd never have time to write another book. And that would stink.

 

 

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Website created and maintained by Theo Black and Laurie Halse Anderson

Please note...

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However the Web is a tricky place. There are a few scumbags out there who don't care much about kids. We strongly advise parents and schools to use net-filtering software and to monitor their children's use of the Internet. If you come across a broken or inappropriate link, please let Writerlady know. Thanks.

 

 

 

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