Fun Five: Claire LaZebnik

Aug 27, 2011 by shanyn

Fun Five
Claire LaZebnik

Author of Epic Fail

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1. Invent a new ice cream flavor.
Fiber cereal chocolate chocolate chip. You’d get a ton of chocolate in every bite, but you’d also get your day’s fiber requirements so you could pretend it was good for you and eat a lot of it. I like an excuse to eat a lot of chocolate ice cream.

2. What is your favorite cereal?
Does oatmeal count? On a cold morning, nothing’s better than a hot bowl of chewy steel-cut oats with a spoonful of peanut butter and a squirt of agave syrup. But if it has to be readymade out of a box, then I’d say Lucky Charms. But don’t tell the kids how much I like it. I pretend I buy it for them and expect a lot of gratitude . . .

3. Describe your ideal car.
One that starts every morning and never needs to go to the mechanic and is so unbelievably fuel-efficient that it almost never needs more gas. With a big trunk to hold a lot of stuff. I couldn’t care less what it looks like. For an Angeleno, I’m unusually indifferent to what I drive–so long as it gets me where I’m going and holds what I need it to hold, I’m good. Part of me likes driving up to snooty valets with a beat-up ugly old minivan (which is what I drive in actuality). Keeping it real.

4. Where do you most often eat breakfast?
Standing up at my computer. Which is exactly what all the magazine articles about being healthy and thin and all that tell you NOT to do. I make my cup of coffee, spread some peanut and jelly on whatever’s around (rice cake, toast, small children), pull up Facebook on the screen, and that’s where you’ll find me pretty much all morning long. There’s a thin layer of peanut butter coating my laptop. So far it hasn’t affected its functionin94095lsjlsjtoghoshfohslsosy220.

5. What is the slogan on the last t-shirt you wore?
“Desi(red).” One of the “Product Red” series from the Gap–some percentage of the profits go to fight Global AIDS, although, in all honesty, I didn’t buy it myself, it was handed down to me from a teenage friend. But I WOULD have bought it! It’s my favorite shirt to sleep in. Soft.

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More about Epic Fail:
Will Elise’s love life be an epic win or an epic fail?

At Coral Tree Prep in Los Angeles, who your parents are can make or break you. Case in point:

As the son of Hollywood royalty, Derek Edwards is pretty much prince of the school—not that he deigns to acknowledge many of his loyal subjects.

As the daughter of the new principal, Elise Benton isn’t exactly on everyone’s must-sit-next-to-at-lunch list.

When Elise’s beautiful sister catches the eye of the prince’s best friend, Elise gets to spend a lot of time with Derek, making her the envy of every girl on campus. Except she refuses to fall for any of his rare smiles and instead warms up to his enemy, the surprisingly charming social outcast Webster Grant. But in this hilarious tale of fitting in and flirting, not all snubs are undeserved, not all celebrity brats are bratty, and pride and prejudice can get in the way of true love for only so long.

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