My next novel, Jeremy Bender vs the Cupcake Cadets, doesn't hit shelves until May 2011. That seems like eons away. So imagine my surprise when I received a big box from my publisher that held a big pile of advance reading galleys! I also received news of the awesome blurbs my book will be wearing ( Read more... )

I want to thank everyone for such an awesome summer. The release of SETH BAUMGARTNER'S LOVE MANIFESTO was a roller coaster of excitement starting with BEA just weeks before launch date. I've been working with St. Anne Institute on their teen library and bouncing form signing to signing. I've also been moving and working on my next book.


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I know everyone has been eagerly anticipating the results of the Seth Baumgartner's Love Manifesto Haiku Contest. It has been a really tough process to determine our winners as the judges were split in a few different directions. However, using highly complicated mathematical formulae, a protractor, and several Slap Chops I have determined our ( Read more... )

For those of you who do not know, I've been holding a book drive for the St. Anne Institute, a not-for-profit residential and therapeutic facility for at-risk girls ages 12 to 18 located here in Albany. Last week marked the first gifting of books to the St. Anne Institute.


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I had a great signing on Saturday afternoon with friend and author, Coleen Paratore. Coleen is just releasing her fourteenth novel, Wish I Might, another great addition to the Wedding Planner's Daughter series. I saw early versions of this book and it's really good. Coleen is one of those gifted writers who can pack a book so full of heart that it' ( Read more... )

To say that this week has been a whirlwind is an understatement. Not only did I launch a book, but I won an award for another!

A few weeks ago, I discovered I had been nominated for an Adirondack Literary Award by the Adirondack Center for Writing for my last novel, Bug Boy. My assumption was that it would go to someone else as it was my first ( Read more... )

Today's winner for a choice of a signed hardcover or CD Audiobook of SETH BAUMGARTNER'S LOVE MANIFESTO is @Joyce_Lansky. Congratulations, Joyce!

If you are still interested in entering the contest to win an iPod, iTunes gift cards or signed hardcovers, CD Audiobooks or Playaway versions of my book, go on over to the post and enter. Remember, you ( Read more... )

I had the pleasure of fielding questions from a young interviewer a few weeks ago and was pleased to see it posted online. Thanks go out to ReadingJunky and her awesome students.

Also, super special thanks go out to all the great people who have made book launch day super special. Whether it was on Facebook, Twitter, your blog or wherever, it's been ( Read more... )

Okay, we are less than a day away from the release of my next novel, Seth Baumgartner's Love Manifesto, and I am so super excited about the release I've decided to hold a contest to celebrate. It's a mega-awesome contest, too. I've got some great prizes for you, so read on...


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This year's Book Expo America (BEA) was amazing. I know industry professionals belly-ache about how "down" the industry is and how everyone is scaling back their presence at the big conventions, but there was no sign of that last week at the 2010 BEA (with the exception of a few major publishers who were absent... pfffththhthth ( Read more... )