Lots of good stuff,
but this bit about Bliss really jumped out at me:
Oh, you have made my heart squishy. Those are two of my fave novels (that I wrote), too. And they were HARD to write!!! But right now--as much as I'd love to write another (and I have a third planned to wrap things up)--I doubt it'll happen. Why? Because Bliss and RWW didn't sell so well. My guess is that the girls who like the "sweeter" books, like the Winnie books and the ttyl books, saw Bliss and RWW and read the jacket flaps and were like, "Nnnnoooooo thanks," and so...yeah. That is a potential peril of writing whatever the heck you want to write instead of "branding" yourself by always writing the same sort of thing. Not that branding yourself is necessarily a bad idea. Just not for me.
I FIND THAT SO DEPRESSING BECAUSE OH MY GOD I LOVED BLISS SO HARD.
I loved Bliss! I read it before I read any other Lauren Myracle book, so I had the opposite reaction, like, "Oh some sweet books from the author of Bliss." I pushed HARD for my library to buy the book (I hadn't officially joined the teen staff at that point but I kept giving the teen librarian reviews that I thought were good). I didn't see it circulate much. It was EXCELLENT though.
Posted by: Marissa | 07 September 2013 at 08:48 PM
I think this was maybe my first Myracle book too. Also I really enjoyed it, but it always weirded me out just a tad because that picture on the front looks ALMOST IDENTICAL to what my mom looked like around that time period.
Posted by: Julie | 07 September 2013 at 09:21 PM
MY FAVORITE TOO!! So boss!!http://www.readingrants.org/2008/06/30/bliss-by-lauren-myracle/
Posted by: Jennifer Hubert Swan | 07 September 2013 at 11:15 PM
@JHS: I'm starting to think it might be time for another Recommend Books That Deserved More of a Splash Week.
Posted by: Leila | 08 September 2013 at 07:14 AM