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C. Leigh Purtill

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About Me

I'm a novelist living in LA. My current books are LOVE, MEG (July 07/Penguin Razorbill) and ALL ABOUT VEE (April 08/Penguin Razorbill).I used to work in film as a script supervisor and in television as a standards editor (I've had some pretty cool jobs and met a lot of very cool people). I love to read and write about the entertainment industry and I'm always on the lookout for celebrities - both major and minor - to post in the celeb sightings page on my website. Come check it out! www.leighpurtill.com

My Interests

Ballet, books, television, film, vegetarian recipes

I'd like to meet:

MY FABULOUS READERS!!!!

Music:

Jonathan Coulton, U2, The Carpenters, Nine Inch Nails, Bach's Brandenbourg Concertos, Vivaldi, Beastie Boys, Fallout Boy, Amy Winehouse, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Matchbox 20, Maroon 5 (yes, okay???)

Movies:

12 Monkeys, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Castle in the Sky, Spirited Away, The Science of Sleep, Back to the Future trilogy, The Emperor's New Groove, Lilo and Stitch, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Tideland, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, A Christmas Story

Television:

Lost, The Simpsons, Heroes, Arrested Development, Desperate Housewives, Kitchen Nightmares, Dirty Sexy Money, Aliens in America, The Office, Scrubs, Medium, 30 Rock, House of Eliott, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: Voyager

Books:

Don't make me pick...I love Stephen King and Dean Koontz and Anne Tyler and Elizabeth Berg and Umberto Eco and John Steinbeck and Douglas Adams and Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov and Alan Moore and Octavia Butler and Sarah Dessen and Megan McCafferty and CG Watson and Liane Bonin and Binnie Kirshenbaum and Richard Matheson and Jack Finney and John Kennedy Toole and Michael Chabon and Lemony Snicket and David Foster Wallace and Mark Haddon and Madeleine L'Engle and...

My Blog

The queue, the queue!

(For those of you in the Connecticut area, be sure to grab a copy of the Waterbury Republican-American newspaper today and check out the Women section - there's an article about me by feature writer C...
Posted by C. Leigh Purtill on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:35:00 PST

Traveling today so I am wicked tired.

Remember the old movies with those romantic scenes of people flying across the country? Passengers got all duded up with hats and furs and jewelry (ok the furs are a little un-pc) and everything was s...
Posted by C. Leigh Purtill on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:29:00 PST

Never too late to win free stuff!

  If you're bored on a Sunday or you're too hot to move anything larger than your mouse, click on over to Teen Book Review and read my guest blog about, I don't know, whatever nonsense I'm talki...
Posted by C. Leigh Purtill on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:45:00 PST

Random Thoughts on a Friday

1. I'm a Wikipedia entry! I'm so excited about this I can hardly stand it. I use Wiki like, a million times a day, and here I am, listed and everything. Check it out....Leigh in Wikipedia! 2. The winn...
Posted by C. Leigh Purtill on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:29:00 PST

Digital vs. paper

I gotta say, one of the absolute coolest things about being a writer is getting letters from readers. I mean, actual letters: thoughts jotted down on paper and sent out in an envelope with a stamp thr...
Posted by C. Leigh Purtill on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:38:00 PST

Contest/Blog Reminder

One more thing for today...   You can still enter to win a signed hardcover of LOVE, MEG over at Teen Book Review!  Just post a comment!  It really couldn't be easier to get something f...
Posted by C. Leigh Purtill on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:11:00 PST

Guest Blogging and a Free Book!

Free has to be the best word in the English language! Who doesn't like something that's free? Free money. Free food. Free gas. Free love... We'll stop right there. Oh wait, one more: free book! Today ...
Posted by C. Leigh Purtill on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:45:00 PST

Body Image and the Ballerina

A couple of weeks ago I posted about being "fat" in LA, about the media's obsession with perfect bodies and how it makes the rest of us feel. And let's please note that the media's definition of "perf...
Posted by C. Leigh Purtill on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:44:00 PST

More videso of Leigh saying stuff

My Ninja Webmaster has put together 2 more videos for the website, one of me talking about...I don't know...stuff and the other one without me talking at all, just some enjoyable music while I do...I ...
Posted by C. Leigh Purtill on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:44:00 PST

Did I screw this up???

Okay, I don't think I did the videos right on this page.  For some reason, they worked on my blog and website, so maybe you should go there and check them out... My blog: http://cleighpurtill.blo...
Posted by C. Leigh Purtill on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:26:00 PST