Lisa Yee - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I write books, stories, and grocery lists.
In my past life I've written TV specials for Mickey Mouse, menus for Red Lobster, and and penned a speech for a president of the United States. I've been kicked out of the Official Olympic Torch Run by the police, and was once a hand model and got paid in chocolate.

My debut novel MILLICENT MIN, GIRL GENIUS has won numerous accolades, including the Sid Fleischman Humor Award.

Second book, STANFORD WONG FLUNKS BIG-TIME was recently named American Library Association Notable book and the NEW YORK POST called it, "a heartfelt, funny story about a loveable underdog."

In 2007, SO TOTALLY EMILY EBERS, the third in the trilogy published by Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, debuted and an American Girl novel called GOOD LUCK, IVY was also released.I'm currently working on DEFINITELY MAYBE, a YA novel about a girl who runs away to Hollywood to find the father who doesn't even know she exists.
For exciting stuff, free food, fabulous prizes, and more visit me at my website . Only, we might be out of free food and fabulous prizes.

My Interests

I am interested in most things, except for mayonnaise and certain politicians.
This also interests me more than it should.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet Mr. Darcy, J.K. Rowling, and Bob Dylan. But not at the same time.

Music:

I am totally in favor of music.

Movies:

I like funny/sad movies, like LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, and I like musicals, like FUNNY GIRL, and I like dramatic movies, like MILLION DOLLAR BABY, and I like writer movies, like MY BRILLIANT CAREER. But I don't like animal movies because they make me cry.

Television:

Dave Letterman.
Arrested Development.
The Office. Selected informercials.

Books:

OOoooooooOOOOooohhh, I LOVE BOOKS.
Here are my favorites!

Heroes:

this layout is from whateverlife.com!

My Blog

Kids Are (Published) Authors!

The bug to be an author bit me when I was a kid . . . I was always writing things, like this gem . . .Yes, it's the world famous poem, THE WEATHER by Lisa Yee, age nine. Who can forget these immortal ...
Posted by Lisa Yee on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:45:00 PST

Bite-Sized Bits o’ Bloggy Things

I'm really tired. I don't know why. Perhaps it's from not getting enough sleep?Anyway, my brain is not organized enough to put things in order, so here are Ten Random Author-ish blobby blog things in ...
Posted by Lisa Yee on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:06:00 PST

BEA-O-RAMA, Part 2-1/2

We last left off at the Book Sense Awards where, among other winners, my very own local bookstore, Vroman's in Pasadena, was picking up the Publisher's Weekly Bookseller of the Year Award. Then the ne...
Posted by Lisa Yee on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:57:00 PST

Yay, BEA!!!

BEA lasted less than a week, but it'll take me more-than-a-week to blog about all the bookishness that went on.As always, Scholastic, who publishes most of my books, had a HUGE booth and really soft c...
Posted by Lisa Yee on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:45:00 PST

Oooh la LAYA-PALOOZA and BEA Begins

Tonight was the kick-off-day-before BEA (Book Expo America). It's the largest annual book trade fair in the country and on several planets--but not Pluto because Pluto has been downgraded.) Peepy and ...
Posted by Lisa Yee on Thu, 29 May 2008 12:48:00 PST

Guess Who’s Asian!!!

What???This may come as a surprise to some of you, but I'm Asian. I know I was surprised when I found out.I had always suspected that I was Chinese, after all, my grandparents immigrated here from Chi...
Posted by Lisa Yee on Tue, 27 May 2008 04:04:00 PST

How To Be Bad

Independent bookstores. Don't you love 'em!!!Earlier this week we visited this fabuloooous place . . .As usual, Peepy instantly made a new friend . . .We were thrilled to see Danger Boy, along with ot...
Posted by Lisa Yee on Wed, 21 May 2008 11:02:00 PST

Prooofing, Pastries and Dining with Dan

Recently, I got my proofread copy of ABSOLUTELY MAYBE back from my editors . . .This is what it looked like . . .At this stage I am given a Captain Underpants eraser and instructed to wipe out any spe...
Posted by Lisa Yee on Sun, 18 May 2008 10:05:00 PST

Letters About Literature

After taking a day off to recover from the this exhilaration/exhaustion, Peepy and I journey a couple miles to Pasadena . . .We had never been to the gorgeousfabulousawesome Pasadena Public Library be...
Posted by Lisa Yee on Fri, 16 May 2008 06:08:00 PST

Famous Authors Invade Atlanta (part 2)

We last left off in Atlanta where Peepy was being interviewed during the IRA Conference . . .I've heard there were 25,000-ish attendees. However, I counted and there were actually 37,598 people (and o...
Posted by Lisa Yee on Mon, 12 May 2008 10:41:00 PST