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Jenny Meyerhoff

Jenny Meyerhoff writes novels for children and teenagers.

Author of Class B.U.R.P., Attack of the Girlzillaz, Green Thumbs-Up!, Pumpkin Spice, Project Peep, Sweet Peas and Honeybees, Starry Skies and Fireflies, A Squirmy, Wormy Surprise, Playin Cupid, Third Grady Baby, Queen of Secrets, Sami's Sleepaway Summer, and The Barftastic Life of Louie Burger.

I must say, I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on I go to the library and find myself a good book.–Groucho Marx.

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I’m just kidding. I love TV.

But I love books more!
Some books I’ve read recently that I recommend:

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (great for kids 8-12!)

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud (funny and exciting!)

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (a grown-up book–sooo good!)

And a trio of books by Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings and Charmed Thirds. (these are published for adults, but are about a teenage girl–FUNNY!)

Okay, your turn. Give me somthing good to read. I’m getting close to the bottom of the pile on my nightstand.

This post has X-Ray vision!

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Why aren’t there any great shows about all-powerful supernatural women on TV right now? For me it all started with Wonder Woman, but more recently I got to watch Buffy and then Charmed. And now? Nothing. I really miss vicariously kicking bootie.

But while we are on the subject of amazing women, I went to go see Lois Lowry speak the other night. (She doesn’t actually have super powers unless you count writing 34 books in 3o years including two Newbery award winners and the hysterical books about Anastasia Krupnik! Which I do.) She was funny and inspiring, and I hope I can be her when I grow up. Or at least some reasonable facsimile!

Right now my only superpower is bionic procrastination. I can make the whole day disappear in, like, the blink of an eye. Just call me Slacker Girl. I have a great idea for a costume too, I just don’t think I’ll ever get around to making it.
If you were a superhero, who would you be?

p.s. check out blogging for mom…a great new blog written by children’s book author Brenda Ferber‘s kids

Gettin’ down to business!

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Quick book update:
I’m doing a minor revision of THIRD GRADE BABY, my chapter book. After that’s finished, I think we move on to line editing.

I just learned that a class of 2k8, modeled after the class of 2k7 is forming. If you have no idea what this means, click here: http://classof2k7.com/
Basically, it’s a group of authors whose debut books are all apearing in the same calendar year. By working together, these authors can do a lot more to market their books than each could do alone. The whole thing starts April 15th.

And apropos of nothing, a guy I know recently reminded me of a product i’d forgotten about. A shampoo called Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific. This got us thinking of other products whose names are actually phrases, like I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter. Unfortunately, our list stopped there. But I’m sure there are more. Come on, help me, I’m wasting far too many brain cells trying to come up with them.

I hope this post doesn’t make you hungry!

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So there are some things in the world that have pretty much exhausted themselves.

For example, board games. I’m of the mind that all of the really good board games have already been invented. Scrabble, Boggle, Sorry, Monopoly, Yahtzee, Pass the Pigs (okay there are lots more but I can’t think of them right now.) But my point is that most of the games that are classics, that really, really work and are fun to play, were invented a long time ago, and most of the new games that are coming out right now are just not that fun. All the good games have already been invented.

Here’s another case in point. Candy bars. The classics: Reece’s Reanut Butter Cups, Nestle Crunch, Snickers, Milky Way, Three Musketeers (okay, again the list could go on and on), have been around forever. New candy bars come out all the time, but do any of them really catch on? Not really.

There are probably other cagtegories of goods that fit this description, but I don’t really feel like taxing my brain any more that I already have. So here’s my pick for something that will never exhaust itself: books. Lots of people claim that there are only a fixed number of stories: 64; 20 or even only 2. But the amazing thing is that they can be retold in an infinite number of ways!

Yay books!

Okay, so now you probably have 5000 exceptions to my rule bouncing around in your head, so if you must, release them onto the comments page.

And THIRD GRADE BABY will be in bookstores Fall 2008!

Do you want fries with that?

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So once I went to Dairy Queen. (I’m partial to vanilla dipped in cherry.) As I was walking out of the restaurant a squad car, sirens blaring, screeched to a halt in the parking lot and two cops jumped out and grabbed a guy with scruffy brown hair leaning casually up against the front of the DQ waiting for his order. (He’d been in line in front of me only moments before.)

Naturally, I stuck around to watch the events that were about to unfold and to enjoy some soft serve on a beautiful summer’s day.

The police officers bent the guy over the hood of their car, frisked him and cuffed him. As they shoved him in the back seat of the cruiser, a pimply faced DQ employee walked up to “the perp” carrying a grease-stained paper bag. “Do you still want your burger?”

I kid you not.
Blizzard, anyone?

Is there anything as cute as a baby?

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I went to visit a six-week-old that I know the other day, and boy was he cute. He’s in that very first smile stage when the side of their nose crinkles as they try to get the corners of their mouth lifted. Sooo cute! But by far the highlight of the visit was getting to use the funniest baby product I’ve ever come across…the breast bottle!

Yes, you read that correctly. It is a squishy silicon bottle shaped like a you-know-what! (Thankfully it was the hold in your hand variety and not the kind you strap to your chest!)

Also got an email from my editor yesterday. (MY EDITOR! YAY!) That ought to keep me on cloud nine for the rest of the month.

Hope you have a purple day!
Jenny

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So guess what I did today! I met with a web designer. L’il ole me is going to have her own website. And it will feature a purple desk. Just not this one.

Guess what I did this weekend! I went to a puppet show for grown ups. At this place:

Redmoon Theater, if you can catch one of their shows I highly recommend it! They are unlike anything else you’ve ever seen. And it made me realize how much I love to go to live theater.
And how much I love going out with my husband. And how expensive babysitters are.
Oh well.

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#1 & #2

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So, here’s what I’ve learned about myself this week since I got the offers for my books and started blogging (well, posting twice.)
1. I have a really hard time accepting complements
2. I have a really hard time talking about myself
Connected? I think maybe. And maybe that’s why I write, too. It’s much easier to go there with characters I’ve made up, then with myself.

But since I’m here….
No news yet on final details of the deal, but I find for once it’s easy to be patient. I have a new young adult novel (book #4) I’m just beginning, and I’d like to get some momentum going there. I also have book #3, a funny story about a 10 yr. old boy, that needs to be revised. Plus another little project I’ve got goin’ on. Once the deals for #1 and #2 (okay, get your heads out of the potty) are done, I’ll probably be swamped with revisions.

Sooo, I should be writing not blogging right now.

(Not that I don’t want to blog with you right now, but I really shouldn’t be talking anymore. Okay? Bye!)

Pinch Me

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Well, I started this blog a while ago, but as you can see…I never posted. Really I never planned to post. It was sort of a secret inspiration. If I ever became a published author then, I thought, then I would blog.

Guess what?

I’m blogging! I’ve received offers on two of my children’s books, and as soon as the deals are finalized, I’ll share more details. But Third Grade Baby and Girl in Waiting are really going to happen!