Cast of Characters
Meet the FYAers…
poshdeluxe
poshdeluxe (also known by the less glamorous name of sarah) lives in austin, tx. she loves baked goods, fancy pants drinks and dance parties. she also hates capitalizing things unless they’re Really Important. her dream in life is to be best friends with sarah dessen and mandy moore and have lots and lots of slumber parties. her favorite YA boy is jonah griggs from “jellicoe road” (well… he’s actually tied with wes from “the truth about forever” and peeta from “hunger games.” and also cameron quick from “sweethearts.” and ok obvs sarah has a lot of book crushes, which is one of the reasons she started this site).
jenny
Jenny recently moved to Austin from Cambridge, MA. She has been reading non-stop since Walter Farley’s “The Black Stallion” found its way into her 9-year old hands. Apart from spending time reading, (obvs!) she loves writing, watching movies, tasty beverages, and other leisure activities that don’t require her to leave her house/restaurant/bar. She wishes she will someday write as well as Suzanne Collins, and that everyone in the world would heed the words of Robert Pattinson, and put their seat belt on.
erin
Erin read her first YA novel when she was seven. At the time, she felt this made her super-edgy and smart, but it was quickly pointed out to her that she’d read, with equal enthusiasm, the back of a cereal box if it was placed in front of her. She’s become slightly more discerning over the years, but her bookshelf continuously hovers at 50% YA novels. She still reads the backs of cereal boxes with enthusiasm.
meghan
meghan is a librarian and lives in georgia (although she’ll always be a texan). she loves books (obvs), cooking and homey things like knitting. although she’s around books all the time, she doesn’t get to read as much as she’d like. instead, she’s constantly adding books to her to-read list and helping other people discover new favorite books. she can’t remember learning to read, and went from the cat in the hat to nancy drew pretty quickly, and when lois lowry’s rabble starkey found it’s way into her 8-year-old hands, it was all over. she’s waiting for the day meg cabot shows up at her door with a dvd of “bring it on,” a makeup kit and 2 dozen cupcakes and says she wants to have a slumber party.
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Ladies, it’s a pity we don’t live in the same country because you’re my kind of gals! Cheers to drinking and YA….at the same time.
agreed, adele! and who knows, maybe one day we can have an international happy hour where we get tarted up and drink martinis and dish about YA via live chat or something equally as ridiculous and awesome.
Awesome Guys! Now you just need an actual YA reader like me! (hint hint wink wink JK!)
But super cool I love this site!
thanks, kyra! and we’re glad to have you, esp. as a representative of actual young people (OMG did i just write the phrase “young people”?!! that’s it. grab some depends and put me in a home).
Seriously?!?!
I love your site. As a fellow lover of YA, I have to say that you guys are awesome. Nice to know that there are some fellow Texans out there who read YA also. As an sdult, people are always looking at me as though I’m nuts. Now I’ll just redirectthem here!
oops, i meant adult!
jessica, i feel you. people give me the cray eye all of the time, although admittedly, i probably am a bit touched in the head. on behalf of all of us FYA gals, we’re glad to have you as a new neighbor in our literary crazytown! you come back soon, ya hear?
I still have a secret obsession with YA novels, almost had the entire Sweet Valley University series til I had to you know stop buying them to start paying for stupid things like rent and food. The very first book I ever bought myself was “Kidnapped” from the Sweet Valley High series, and it still annoyed me every single book when they described the twins, oh and the fact that Todd had “chocolate” brown eyes. Love reading your guys take on it all.
jenn, i’ve got good news for you. your secret obsession DOESN’T HAVE TO BE A SECRET ANYMORE!!! welcome to FYA, where you can not only revel in yr sweet valley love, but also play a drinking game to celebrate it!
Agreed about Wes from “The Truth About Forever”. He is so sawoooon-worthy. And now I feel less embarrassed about having finally acquired a library card just so I can read Sarah Dessen books.
Oh my gosh you guys I just read this. I was coming down from my Jellicoe Road high (JONAH!!!!!!! Swoon City!) so I read The Truth About Forever and …hello Wes. I can’t stop thinking about how much I love both he and Macy. I didn’t think it would help me get over the Jellicoe sadness (oh the teabs) but it was so good and I think I’ve read my favorite parts ten billion times today. Sa-woon.
shelby, THERE IS NO SHAME HERE. only love. and drinking. welcome to FYA!
Just talked up your website at the Missouri Association of School Librarians conference. Woo hoo!
brian, you are totally our new PR agent (um, congrats!). also WE LOVE YOU MISSOURI.
I actually really do love Missouri. Did you know that you can get HARD ALCOHOL in the CONVENIENCE STORES at FOUR IN THE MORNING? Let me tell you, that makes a real difference on a trip from Austin to Ann Arbor when you’re sharing a bus with lots of dirty hippies.
Um, Erin…are you telling me that you CAN’T get hard alcohol at all hours in other states? Cuz I always kind of assumed you could. At last, we exceed some other state besides Arkansas.
The MASL conference was a blast. No knife fights this year.
Not in Texas, sadly. Hard alcohol is sold only from 10 am to 9 pm, Monday through Saturday. SIGH.
And in Mississippi you can barely get any at all! But that’s okay, because someone usually has moonshine.
I’m so happy that getting married at 23 (if you met him…you’d have said yes too) which forced me go back to the library (no $ for cable)
where I found my love for Meg Cabot ( I have no idea how I lived before without the Mediator series and Queen of the Babble in my life?!) which lead me to this site (she just twittered about y’all today)
and now FYA has totally made my day! I’m so in love! And it’s awesome that someone else wants to be besties with Meg Cabot…if that slumber party ever gets planned Meghan, I totally want an invite. I’ll bring the nail polish and facial mud masks
Me too! I heart Meg Cabot. Now I also heart all y’all.
Allison, we’ve already got the Slumber Party (well, the virtual one) a-raging! You can see what we’re all bringing here: http://www.foreveryoungadult.com/2010/04/29/its-an-fya-slumber-party-and-youre-invited/
And I just finished reviewing Runaway (which by the way I consumed at precisely 6:08 pm on Tuesday, five minutes after I bought it) here: http://www.foreveryoungadult.com/2010/05/07/nikki-howard-brain-trust/
Also, welcome!!
Quite possibly the coolest YA blog around!
wait til we publish our post with old prom photos. THEN we’ll see what you think of our coolness…
You’re a brave bunch
Oh, this is random, but do any of you guys have Goodreads accounts?! If so, I want to be friiiends! MOAR STALKING OPTIONS PLZ .
i do! just emailed you. OMG WE ARE LIKE REAL FRIENDS NOW.
See now I feel like a TRAITOR because I’ve been using my alt email for this site. BUT GOODREADS WILL MAKE US TRU BFF.
I can’t believe I just found this site. I thought I was the only one out there!!! My drink of choice with YA tends to be wine, but otherwise I think we are all twins…(or quintuplets?) Whatever.
I was never into young adult as an actual young adult. We didn’t have anything nearly as good as Gossip Girl (the earlier books before CvZ just kept hitting repeat over and over again) or Hunger Games. Latest fave? The Mortal Instruments series.
I’m pretty pumped I found this website. I’m 25, but thanks to the internet, I’ve never been more adolescent in my entire life. I’m pretty positive I like anything a 14 year old would enjoy.
Cute! (Maybe I’m feeling effusive because I’m drinking a whiskey sour….) I like the realism stuff like Sarah Dessen and the distopia stuff like Hunger Games (can’t wait for the third!) and, sorry, I like the cheesy romantic fantasy stuff like Twilight (writing sucks shit but so engaging) and Shiver (way, way better writing)…. Hopefully I’ll find more gems from you all.
Hey! I take all of ur reviews vair vair serious because they are sooo kick butt. (:
Have any of you considered writing novels yourself? You guys (er, sorry, girls) critique YA books so well that you could def write some!
Love ur website!
Before I found this blog, I was just a nothing 40 year old Bleek (bored lonely book geek) who’d blush when buying my teen fare from the Russian-Classics -reading hottie at my local indie bookstore. (Somehow, I felt I needed to buy All Things Long and Boring from this shop). Now, because of Forever YA, I strut around reading what I want…and what I want is YA, forever! Thanks for helping me pity the poor Tolstoy-loving fool who stands between me and my Hunger Games.
Welcome, Schuyler!! Um, I think you should send us a picture of the Russian-Classics-reading hottie from your bookstore. You know, for Science.
If I can’t have his picture, neither can Science! But I would soooo share with FYA. Why can’t they make invisible cell phone cameras?? I need a real-life stalking device! Science, if you create this for me, I may even share the photo.
Hello, Ladies (may I call you “Ladies” or do you prefer “Girls”?) Came across your blog via Penguin Teen on Twitter. Not only do I love YA books, but I also write them. Well my first two novels, BAND FAGS! and DRAMA QUEERS! are technically “adult,” but they’re all about teens and are set in the 1980s so the “old” folks can relate as well as the “kids today.” I’m currently at work on a new novel set in the which will officially be “YA”. For more info: http://www.frankanthonypolito.com
Frank, just the titles ALONE of your books makes me love you. I’m totally going to read those!!! As soon as possible!
(p.s. call us anything you like, just not late to happy hour.)
Hey all,
Came across your interview on the Huffington Post and was immediately in love! My husband and I are writers who have written everything from TV to film to comics, but I’ve always been a YA girl at heart. Just finished writing our first YA novel which our agent is about to shop around. Fingers crossed! Meanwhile, I love stumbling across a place where others are as wild about YA as me. Looking forward to checking things out here!
Ive been looking for a site like this for a while now. Its Ah-mazing and i’ve looked at some of the books and they look HOT-astic. You guys are hilarious and awesome. Keep it up
glad you found us, cindy! esp. cos we enjoy compliments.
Posting here ’cause I’m afraid to look at the rest of the site until I’ve read Mockingjay…
Awesome Austin YA Event–I know at least one of y’all is in or near ATX, right? I heard about it on KUT today and am posting in case you missed it:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/24068.Austin_Teen_Book_Festival
we heard about it yesterday and TOTES FREAKED COS MEG CABOT LIGHT OF OUR LIVES will be there. so obvs we’ll be there in full force (full force = flaskage).
Hi Ladies!
I’m new to this blog and am completely and totally obsessed with it due to the fact that I frequently suffer from YA lit related TEABS–it’s so nice to finally have a name for my ailment! So, one reason for my posting is to let you know that I’d like to make you all my new best friends (and I mean that in only the best, non-creepy, non-stalker-y way).
The other reason I’m posting is because I’m wondering if you’re familiar with ALAN (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English) http://www.alan-ya.org/ ? It’s a kick ass organization made of up of tons of proud and fabulous YA readers. In November we’re all meeting up in Orlando for what some have called “the Greatest YA Show on Earth” (aka the ALAN Workshop). I’m quite certain that you’ll find several swoon worthy authors in this line-up: http://davidmacinnisgill.com/2010/07/01/alan-workshop-authors-at-ncte-2010-convention/ . Did I mention that there are free books involved? And, this happens EVERY YEAR!!! I hope you’ll consider attending–it would be so fab to meet all of you in person!
Keep up the great work!
DAYUM DARIA. that line-up is AMAZ. maybe one of us can get our pants over to orlando so we can swimfan, i mean, professionally network with those amazing writers!!! thanks for the heads up!
Hope to see some (or all) of you there! I’ve never had a bad experience at an ALAN Workshop–it’s most definitely worth the cost of registration. The first year I went, my friend and I were so overwhelmed by the amazing numbers of famous people at the cocktail party (yeah, I forgot to mention there is a cocktail party!), that we just sat in the corner with our mouths hanging open. Then, Neal- friggin-Shusterman came and sat down next to us and asked why we weren’t mingling!?! I swear I almost hyperventilated.
And, if you can get in early (and I mean that literally–Saturday morning at 7 a.m.), the keynote speaker for the ALAN Breakfast (additional cost) this year is Gary Paulsen! It’s the most wonderful time of the year…
On a totally unrelated note, I was in my classroom sorting books today (a newly remodeled classroom means many, many misplaced books) and every time I came added another V.C. Andrews book to the “A” horror pile, I thought of you gals