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>Is long the new short?
>I just picked up Katherine Applegate's Beach Blondes: A Summer Novel (Simon Pulse) and boy are my arms tired.
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marbieV
>ms. katherine applegate,i would love it if you would make
the third one, because TAN LINES
is certainly frustrating...
we would all want to know what
happened to Summer Smith's love life, right?
Posted : Nov 11, 2008 11:22
marbieV
>i love the novel...the guys seem so hot in the book...
girls my age (i'm 15)
should try reading it...
i've got lots of friends enjoying it already...
but the sequel SUCKS!!!
please do make a third one...
Posted : Nov 11, 2008 11:18
Anonymous
>I recently read Beach Blondes and Tan Lines because I work for a teen magazine and Simon Pulse is my client. I'm absolutely obsessed with both of them! I literally couldn't put either book down. Katherine, I really wish you'd write a follow up even though you're sick of the series!Posted : Sep 05, 2008 02:41
Roger Sutton
>Hi Katherine--It doesn't feel padded (the Vera Bradley bag was my joke, not from your book); it's just way longer than the average teen romance. I thought it was a lot of fun--I talk about it on an upcoming Horn Book podcast about summer reading.
Posted : Jul 06, 2008 10:28
katherine applegate
>It feels padded because it apparently has been -- I assume by the packager. I wouldn't know a Vera Bradley bag if you smacked me with one. I suppose I might have written about one at some point, but I really doubt it.This was originally a project we (my husband and I) wrote about a millennium ago as a three-book series. It was dragged out beyond the 3 books at the behest of the packager.
Our editor on the project was Ann Brashares, later of Traveling Pants fame. The final book of Summer -- number 6 or 7 or whatever, who remembers -- was finished by Ann when we admitted we were sick to death of the genre, did not want to write another word, and would rather return our advance or possibly stab ourselves in the neck (necks?) than continue.
It was not our decision to reissue this series. We were not informed by the packager. We had no hand in altering or updating the series. We did not make the decision to put the three books together in one volume. I learned of it during a random encounter with a Simon editor at NCTE. We have no control and essentially no financial stake in the series.
Not complaining. We made the deal. (On the advice of our agents at Gray, Faust and Johnson.) But we have both moved on a bit since then. There was a rather lengthy sojourn in science fiction. And now I'd like to be the author of HOME OF THE BRAVE and THE BUFFALO STORM while my husband would prefer to be known as the author of GONE.
-- Katherine Applegate
katherineapplegate at) mac (dot) com
Posted : Jul 06, 2008 08:59