Fun Five: Sarah Mlynowski

Nov 14, 2011 by shanyn

Fun Five
Sarah Mlynowski

Author of Ten Things We Did

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1. What is your favorite office supply?
My bulletin board! I pin everything up. And then I forget to take things down. Like receipts. I wonder if I can still return that green dress I bought from Old Navy in 1998?

2. What sport do you most like to watch on television?
TMZ. It’s kind of a sport…

3. Describe your favorite t-shirt.
A t-shirt that author Leslie Margolis bought me for my thirtieth birthday.It’s super cozy and my go-to sleep shirt. It’s light grey. The Law & Order logo is featured prominently on the front. (I am obsessed with Law & Order. My favorite way to write is sitting on the couch with Law & Order playing in the background.)

4. If you could only have one thing for breakfast for the next year, what would it be?
A toasted Montreal bagel smothered in lox and cream cheese. With orange juice and coffee.

5. Tell us about a time you were very surprised.
I am often surprised. I am surprised by how often I am surprised. Just this morning I was surprised to find a Hershey’s Kiss in the bottom of my laptop bag. Surprised… and delighted.

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About Ten Things We Did:
2 girls + 3 guys + 1 house – parents = 10 things April and her friends did that they (definitely, maybe, probably) shouldn’t have.

If given the opportunity, what sixteen-year-old wouldn’t jump at the chance to move in with a friend and live parent-free? Although maybe “opportunity” isn’t the right word, since April had to tell her dad a tiny little untruth to make it happen (see #1: “Lied to Our Parents”). But she and her housemate Vi are totally responsible and able to take care of themselves. How they ended up “Skipping School” (#3), “Throwing a Crazy Party” (#8), “Buying a Hot Tub” (#4), and, um, “Harboring a Fugitive” (#7) at all is kind of a mystery to them.

In this hilarious and bittersweet tale, Sarah Mlynowski mines the heart and mind of a girl on her own for the first time. To get through the year, April will have to juggle a love triangle, learn to do her own laundry, and accept that her carefully constructed world just might be falling apart . . . one thing-she-shouldn’t-have-done at a time.

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From SarahM.com:
Sarah was born in Montreal, Canada. After graduating with an honors degree in English literature from McGill University, she moved to Toronto to work for Harlequin Enterprises. While she never met Fabio, she used her romance publishing experiences to fuel her first novel MILKRUN.

Since then Sarah has written four additional novels for adults: FISHBOWL, AS SEEN ON TV, MONKEY BUSINESS and ME VS. ME, and the teen novels BRAS & BROOMSTICKS, FROGS & FRENCH KISSES, SPELLS & SLEEPING BAGS and PARTIES & POTIONS—all in the ‘Magic in Manhattan’ series, as well as GIMME A CALL and TEN THINGS WE DID (AND PROBABLY SHOULDN’T HAVE).

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