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About Me

I'm the author of That Summer, Someone Like You, Keeping the Moon, Dreamland, This Lullaby,The Truth About Forever and Just Listen. My newest novel, Lock and Key, will be released in the spring of 2008.For more info, check out my website or my journal .
Thanks to everyone who has left comments or sent messages. Please forgive if I'm not able to get back to you, but I do read, and appreciate, every one. No joke.

The Truth About Forever is now available in the UK!
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My Interests

Okay, so here's the thing: I'm really indecisive. And it seems like this profile is, like, all about naming specific things. So I'm getting all High Fidelity about it, worried the minute I finish I'll think of ten others and then I'll have to go back to edit, and then edit again, and the next thing you know I won't do anything but tinker with it all day long and my career, such as it is, will end.So what can I say? I love to read (a requisite for a writer) and spend entirely too much time on the internet (see above). I watch a lot of television, a fact I used to be ashamed of, and now, not so much.This fall, it will be ten years since my first book came out, a fact that officially blows my mind. A couple of years back, two of my novels were made into a movie called How to Deal. Right now, I'm waiting for my seventh book, Just Listen,, to come out in April.Writing is honestly the only thing I've ever been able to say with any certainty that I do well. I am fair to middling at just about everything else, including but not limited to: cooking, cleaning (okay, less than middling on that one), discussing politics, balancing my checkbook and any and all sports. But if you want someone to quickly summarize this season of Gilmore Girls WHILE making deviled eggs, I am your girl.

My Blog

Local reading!

Just a quick note to let you know I'll be doing my last local reading for awhile THIS WEEKEND, on Sunday the 18th at 2pm, at McIntyre's Books at Fearrington Village in Pittsboro. So come out, say hell...
Posted by Sarah Dessen on Wed, 14 May 2008 11:59:00 PST

Truth About Forever now available in the UK!

Thanks to EVERYONE who has supported Lock and Key, it hit the New York Times Bestseller list at 2! Which is GREAT news. I'm done with my traveling, for now anyway, and am home unpacking, catching up o...
Posted by Sarah Dessen on Tue, 06 May 2008 11:57:00 PST

Lock and Key is here!

Thanks to EVERYONE who came out to the Regulator last night to help me celebrate the release of Lock and Key. I also want to apologize for being late---which I never am, I swear!---but between my baby...
Posted by Sarah Dessen on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:58:00 PST

Lock and Key out TOMORROW!

That's right! After all the writing, editing, nail biting and waiting, Lock and Key officially goes on sale tomorrow. But TONIGHT, Monday, April 21st, I'll be doing a reading at the Regulator Bookshop...
Posted by Sarah Dessen on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:24:00 PST

Win a Lock and Key necklace!

Hey, you! Want a chance to win this?That’s right. In honor of Lock and Key coming out on April 22nd, I’m doing my first ever giveway. First prize is a lock and key necklace, made personall...
Posted by Sarah Dessen on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:24:00 PST

new video!

Here’s a link to another video we shot, this one for BN.com: http://media.barnesandnoble.com/?fr_story=92a0a01045fbd1764e 97a2e23c1b87be8392b059&rf=bm If you look closely, you can see me giv...
Posted by Sarah Dessen on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:02:00 PST

Lock and Key Video!

Here’s a link to a video we shot here in Chapel Hill a few weeks back. Watch it and learn more about me, Lock and Key, pickup trucks and Zipdrinks.... ...
Posted by Sarah Dessen on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:12:00 PST

Tour Dates!

So I finally have the go ahead to post the schedule of readings I’ll be doing for Lock and Key. It’s not that many---I can’t bear to leave my baby for too long!---but I hope some of ...
Posted by Sarah Dessen on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:12:00 PST

New Website Up!

So, after much planning and a ton of hard work from my super web designer Maureen, my new site now up. You can check it out here. There's some info on Lock and Key, and pages for each of my books. Enj...
Posted by Sarah Dessen on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:01:00 PST

new audio clip and message board reminder!

Well, it's Monday, 11:15, and I feel like I've been running around for hours. Which, actually....I have. Huh. I just left Whole Foods, where I had another d'oh! moment. A few weeks back, they were gi...
Posted by Sarah Dessen on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:39:00 PST