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Julie Anne Peters

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Welcome to my Web site

	I designed this site myself so don’t laugh. What it lacks in graphic artistry, it makes up for in content—let’s hope. On my site you'll find more than you ever wanted to know about me and my books. Friend me on MySpace where I write my blah, blah, blog Follow me on Facebook Tweet me on Twitter Site Bytes My new young adult novel, *By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead, is now on bookstore shelves. Read an excerpt or listen to me reading the excerpt. Watch the trailer on YouTube, read the Story Behind the Story, or read an interview on Teenreads.com. So many choices, so little time. Rage: A Love Story* has been selected for the 2010 Rainbow Reading List by the American Library Association. I © librarians. Also selected as a 2010 Capitol Choices Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens. I © book list judges. AND nominated for the 2010 Colorado Book Award. I © book award judges.. *How Beautiful the Ordinary,* edited by Michael Cart, is out and proud. I’m so honored to have a story in this exquisite anthology about love and identity. My favorite YA authors are featured, and my story, First Time, goes all the way with two girls who are in love. Link to reissues of my middle grade novels with very cool (and funny) new covers. ►Everyone is welcome to join my fan club, the JAP Mafia. We use our muscle to change minds J. ►*Luna* was chosen by the American Library Association for their 2009 Great Stories CLUB. The Great Stories CLUB (Connecting Libraries, Underserved teens and Books) is a reading and discussion program designed to reach underserved and at-risk youth through books that are relevant to their lives. THANK YOU, ALA! ►*Between Mom and Jo* is now available in paperback. Whoo hoo. I’m jazzed about the new cover. Click HERE to check it out and read “the story behind the story” of Between Mom and Jo. ►*grl2grl: short fictions* , *Between Mom and Jo* and *Far from Xanadu* were chosen as Rainbow Reads by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Round Table of the American Library Association. This is a best-of-the-best list, so it’s doubly cool for my work to be honored. Thank you, GLBTRT. ►Check out *grl2grl: short fictions. Read reviews* and/or listen to an excerpt. ►*Between Mom and Jo* was named an Honor Book for the first ever James Cook Teen Book Award given by the Ohio Library Council. The award recognizes books that promote and celebrate cultural, ethnic and social diversity; demonstrate excellence in writing; and have a wide appeal to a teen audience. What an honor!

To the utter amazement and absolute shock of everyone I know – including me – I became an author…

An author? I never wanted to be an author. I thought authors were just a bunch of dead people. Okay, sometimes I'm brain-dead (does that count?). As a child I wasn't a reader. You’ve heard of reluctant readers? I was a recalcitrant reader. You couldn’t make me read. Reading was boring and torturous. I never read a book for fun until seventh grade when I discovered the Beany Malone books by Lenora Mattingly Weber. I loved them. Beany was real; she was alive, and she even had freckles. Every week I would rush to the Clear Lake Junior High library to check out the next book in the Beany Malone series, and if somebody else already had it I would reread one of the Beany books I'd already read—over and over again. When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities. My greatest joy would be to write a book that would expand the world for you.

MY BOOKS

Books for Readers 12 and up
Books for Readers 8 – 12
Books for Readers 6 – 9

~Young Adult Novels Coming Soon~

She Loves You, She Loves You Not… (Little, Brown, Spring 2011)

It’s Our Prom, So Deal With It (Little, Brown, Spring 2012)

Books for Older Readers
Ages 12 and up

By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead

January 2010

Hyperion Books
for Young Readers

Rage: A Love Story

September 2009

Knopf Books
for Young Readers

grl2grl:
short fictions
Fall 2007
Paperback Original

Megan Tingley Books
Little, Brown