I just finished reading Jill Kargman and Carrie Karasyov’s co-written novel Summer Intern, a great YA book which just came out in paperback, and I loved it!
The book follows Kira, a whip-smart, hyper-ambitious girl from Philadelphia who wins an essay contest… and the prize is an internship with Skirt, New York City’s hottest fashion magazine. […]

Read more...

This just in from my friend Leora Tanenbaum:
Leora Tanenbaum is now working with high school students writing their college applications essays. Leora is most well-known as the author of Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation, which is taught at universities around the country in courses on women’s studies and sexuality. She is […]

Read more...

Melissa Walker has done it again. Violet by Design, the second book in the “Violet” series (we wrote about Violet on the Runway last summer, and Violet in Private is due out in August) has joined the ranks of the 7th Harry Potter book, My Friend Leonard, and a few other very rare books […]

Read more...

Through GHQ, I had the opportunity to review a young adult novel by one of my favorite authors. Meg Cabot’s How to be Popular was overall, a cute story that made me nostalgic for my teen years.
The novel stars Steph Landry, a 16-year-old girl whose number one desire, like most teenagers, is to be popular. […]

Read more...

I wanted to share this book that I have recently finished reading. It is unlike any book I have read and while I am inclined to call it an autobiography, I think a better name for it would be a self portrait. Written by Amy Rosenthal, An Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life is […]

Read more...

I have just begun my final semester as a college undergraduate student, and while my focus has been mostly on graduation preparation, career opportunities and possible re-location, one of my courses (Advanced Creative Non Fiction) is allowing me to keep partial focus on my passion for creative writing (thank you Professor Smith).
In my last […]

Read more...

Hi all, remember me? I’m your GHQ blogger who had to go off into the real world and start being an adult. Well, I haven’t forgotten about you, I swear! I think about you every day and kick myself for not getting to sit down and write. But things are finally settling down here and […]

Read more...

Well, Jane Green is slowly becoming one of my new favorite authors. As a lover of all things chick lit, I recently finished the book Second Chances that I got for my birthday back in July. I was intrigued that I picked it up this exact week, when I’m freaking out so much […]

Read more...

So exciting! Violet on the Runway, a new YA fiction book about a small-town girl who makes it big in the modeling world hit bookstore shelves yesterday. The author of the book is Melissa Walker, a former editor at ELLEgirl and Seventeen and a big-time freelance writer (she has an article in this […]

Read more...

Hello everybody!
I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a while, I start a new school in a week, and things have been pretty crazy with preparations and fast start programs and everything.
Anyways, as Liz introduced, I am quoted in Danica McKellar’s new book about girls and math, called “Math Doesn’t Suck.” –interesting title, huh? Anyways, I […]

Read more...