I'm so excited about your tour! I'm totally going to your stop in Naperville (unless I have my baby by then! Otherwise I'll be the big pregnant lady. :-) )Good luck!

worry not about the new book! i won a copy from e.'s blog. i just started reading it today (pesky homework and finals are getting in the way of my reading time) and i am loving it so far! :-)

i cant wait till it comes out i goin 2 get it as soon as i can. r u gonna hold a contest 2 see if some 1 can win it? talk about lauren trivia



from Alex in V.A.
LOL :]

haha, i think i agree, though i'll have to be careful to keep that from my professors. after all, this is my last semester of college and i'm already accepted to grad school. i don't need straight-a's, i just need to pass!

and you and e. and sarah are the ones who rock. you wrote the book after all!!

Take a chill pill. Lauren, everything will be alright! Is the new novel 'Peace Love & Baby Ducks'? If so, I have an iidea, like a LOT of boys like the one developed girl! Including the older sis's BF!!!!! If you think the idea sucks, just don't use it.

You make me sound very, very mean, when I'm only just very mean.

Get back to work.

JSG

I just received my copy today in the mail! Thanks so much for having your publicist send it to me. The finished copy looks fantastic and I love looking at it, lol. I'll let you know when the review is up!

PS This is Book Chic who emailed you a while back about a copy, in case you don't remember since I'm posting under my regular LJ name rather than the nonexistant Book Chic one, lol.

Good luck with the tour, and with finishing your novel! You can totally do it, Lauren!! *hugs!*

Unfortunately, I can't start reading it yet. :( I have a couple books to get through before I can start How to Be Bad. But I will let you know when the review is put up!

i can't wait for it to come out! it's going to be so amazing! my friend and i have been waiting for weeks. it's going to be the best book ever!

hehehe
i don't know if i can do the other ones for you
but i've been telling my friends for months to go out and buy your books
and have been ranting on them about this one
and
VOILA!
i have convinced about half my grade (most girls but a few boys) to go out and get it
one problem though
i'm going to be in california the day it comes out
instead of virginia (probably spelled wrong)
so i can't buy it
but i will asap

You should post a pic of your cute new hairstyle, Lauren! Then you can show off your bright new white teeth and beautiful glow. :)

I'll bring you cookies! Where's the tour schedule, though?

Hey Lauren, what ages is "How To Be Bad" for?
Because I have a niece who is turning 13 in about two weeks and she absolutely adores your books.
Would you say this book would be fun (and appropriate) to read for a 7th grader?

Good question. Here's the scoop: the book is about three very different girls--God-fearing Jesse, wild child Vicks, and rich kid Mel--who take a road trip through Florida to see Vicks' boyfriend, who's gone to college, and who hasn't been returning Vicks' calls, the rat. The book deals mainly with friendship--I love writing about friendship!--and of course, I think the book says a lot more about how to be "good" than how to be "bad." Good meaning, how to be a good friend, how to be honest with yourself, how to accept the flaws of others, how to hold yourself to high standards nonetheless. Ya know.

So, would I let *my* 7th grader read it? Heck yeah. Then again, I'll let my nine-year-old read it if he wants. I'm pretty easy that way. As for other 7th graders: you should know that there is TALK of sex but nothing more shown than wonderful, toe-tingling kissing. Um, there may be the word f*** once or twice. I honestly can't remember. I think when Vicks gets really mad at Jesse, she might say it. After she throws a Coke can at her. In a pirate-themed hotel where the waiters wear eye-patches.

But the book--while full of juicy goodness--is really pretty clean. Like, Jesse can't even manage to say the word "badass," which comes up with the girls have broken into this dumpy old museum and they're talking to a stuffed alligator about what it means to be a "badass." (You'll have to read the novel to understand.) Jesse has to say "bad-bottom" instead, which cracks Vicks and Mel up to no end.

The bottom line is that sarah, E., and I aren't out to scandalize--we're just out to tell a really rocking story.

Hope that helps!

Ooooo!!! A road trip!!!!!!!!!!!! Reminds me of Zoe, Angela, and Maddie when they were so excited about their own road trip.

Can't wait to start reading it! We luv ya Lauren!! <3

Your book's going to be great....they always are (:

ok ill come paint your nails for you and you have to sign my forehead! jk

finish my novel 4 me loll