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February 2006
My new book Such a Pretty Girl, a dark thriller being published by MTV Books and not for the faint of heart, is due out January 2007!
Check back often for a sneak peek at the cover!
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Ten books in ten months. Writing the Girl Friends series was grand, crazy and I loved every second spent with Janis, Natalie, Maria, Cassandra and Stephanie.
The first three books also came out in Germany in hardcover and paperback but since I don't speak German, I have no idea what they say. They're great to have though, and the covers are fascinating. (Who is Natalie? How about Cassandra? How can there be two blonds?) |
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Book Ten ended with terrible cliffhangers
and I'm thinking it's time to resolve them,
so check back here every so often
and you may find a link to some answers.
The Girl Friends series has been out of print for a while now but Amazon, Half.com or any of the used book sites may have copies for sale. |
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As Laura Battanyi-Petose
and Laura Battyanyi Wiess |
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Downtown Boy was my first book and it came out under Laura Battanyi-Petose. (Note the spelling difference in Battyanyi. We lost a y somewhere.)
Backstage Pass was my twelfth book (Downtown Boy was before Girl Friends, BP after it) and my last name was spelled correctly as Laura Battyanyi-Petose. Then my first husband (the Petose part) passed away.
When I remarried, I became Laura Battyanyi Wiess. As LBW, I assisted K.A. Applegate in writing three Animorphs books -- numbers 27, 31 and 39 -- and dreamt of Vissers and Yeerks. What a wild ride.
Now I write under plain old Laura Wiess (rhymes with peace) and if there's another pseudonym in my future, I hope it's as much fun as Nicole Grey was. |
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I keep this quote by Lynn Sharon Schwartz on my bulletin board:
"Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity, the sense of aliveness that came from writing fiction. I'm still that way. My life is worth living when I've completed a good paragraph."
and this one by W.O. Mitchell:
"Do not quit.
You see, the most constant state of an artist is uncertainty. You must face confusion, self-questioning, dilemma. Only amateurs are confident...be prepared to live with the fear of failure all your art life."
Scary stuff, but it's worth it.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein |
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