Malinda Lo

Next up on the First Sentence Tour starring the 2009 Debutantes is Stacey Jay‘s third zombie novel, My So Called Death, which was published in March. What’s one of your favorite first sentences from one of your favorite books? SJ: From The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot: Sometimes it seems like all I ever do ... More→

The First Sentence Tour starring the 2009 Debutantes continues this week with Stacey Jay, whose novel Undead Much? (the sequel to You Are So Undead to Me) came out in January. What’s one of your favorite first sentences from one of your favorite books? SJ: From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: A throng of ... More→

This week, my First Sentence Tour starring the 2009 Debutantes continues with Erin Dionne, whose second novel, The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet, came out in January. What’s one of your favorite first sentences from one of your favorite books? ED: First sentence of Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White: Where’s Papa going with ... More→

As many of you know, I’m a member of the 2009 Debutantes. Well, our debut year may be over, but our books keep coming! So this year I’m happy to be hosting a number of Debs on the occasion of their second and even third books. All year long, we’ll be talking about first sentences ... More→