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Edith

First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.--Martin Myers

About Me


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My Interests

YA novels and writing
I blog a little on LJ.
Check me out at Edith's Live Journal

I'd like to meet:

I'd Like to Meet:
YA writers & book-lovers, a talking frog

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Movies:

American Splender
Batman Begins
Breakfast on Pluto
The Girl in the Cafe
A Good Woman
For Your Consideration
Hustle & Flow
A Love Song for Bobby Long
Little Miss Sunshine
Lost in Translation
Match Point
Me, You & Everyone We Know
The Prize Winner of Defiance, OH
Prime
Proof
Scoop
Somersault
Transamerica
Upside of Anger
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Winter Passing

Television:

Veronica Mars, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, The Office, House, Weeds, Project Runway, Alias, Arrested Development

Books:

Gingerbread, Anatomy of a Boyfriend, Fat Kid Rules the World, A Brief Chapter in my Impossible Life, Twisted, Speak, Cures for Heartbreak, Sold, The Boy Book, The Boyfriend List, In Cold Blood, The Glass Castle, The Tortilla Curtain, Time Traveler's Wife, Jesus Land, Secret Life of Bees, This Lullaby, Life of Pi, Middlesex, She's Not Here, Ambulance Girl, The Alchemist

Heroes:

Literary: Laurie Halse Anderson, Sarah Dessen, Patricia McCormick, Lois Lowry, Oscar Wilde, Tolstoy, Octavia Butler, Ha Jin, Amy Tan, JD Salinger, Elie Wiesel, Richard Wright...omg so many more!

My Blog

Why I don't want to write a "real" book and instead I write for children

More reasons to write for kids David Lubar has this fantastic "Get Real" list on his site. Come backs for when idiots ask you why you aren't writing a "real" book. I thought of a few of my own. (Ho...
Posted by Edith on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:33:00 PST

what kind of writer are you?

"There's nothing to writing.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith I was having a discussion with the YaYaYa's (that's my writing group), and so...
Posted by Edith on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:23:00 PST