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- USA Today had very nice things to say about my Russel Middlebrook series this week in a list of "twenty five great high school books," saying Geography Club was an "emotional and funny story" and that the whole series is "entertaining for all readers, regardless of their sexuality."
- Been busy here as usual, getting ready for the publication of Project Sweet Life, my latest teen book, coming in February (about a group of guys who are forced to get summer jobs by their dads, invent fake jobs to satisfy them, and then embark on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to make the money they should have made from the summer jobs). I'm also just finishing my 2010 novel, Rob Hood, about a guy who decides to reorder the social order of his high school, using schemes and tricks to "steal" popularity from the popular and give it to the less-popular. I guess I'm entering the "comedy of errors" or "comic farce" phase of my career. But the thing is, I've always loved writing humor, and these books also lend themselves to intricate plotting, which is very important to me. Let's hope readers follow me down this new path!
- I have yet another editor at HarperCollins (my eighth overall, I think). Her name is Susan Rich, and she discovered and edited the Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events books. She seems very nice so far. I introduced myself as the Editor Destroyer, which I guess I am. (Not really. Turn-over in editors has always been high, and lately it's gotten very, very high. You know how they say it's never a good time to try to get a job in publishing? They're still right.)
It's all cool,
Brent Hartinger
My Books:
* Project Sweet Life (coming in February 2009!)
* Dreamquest
* Split Screen: Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies/Bride of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies
* Grand & Humble
* The Order of the Poison Oak
* The Last Chance Texaco
* Geography Club
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