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Talking teenage years with J.L. Powers
I’m proud to welcome J.L. Powers to the blog today! On tour with her new book, This Thing Called the Future, she is stopping by to share a bit about her teenage years! In this post we ask the author to share what we might find in a garage sale, if things from their teenage years were being cleaned out. Old shoes? Skates? Cassette tapes? Let’s find out what we might find in J.L. Powers’ teenage garage sale! I lived my teenage years very badly. It wasn’t that I was a bad teen. And it wasn’t just that I wasn’t…
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Looking back with Gabriella Goliger
Gabriella Goliger is here today. She is the author of Song of Ascent and the recently released Girl Unwrapped. When I was researching Gabriella what I really liked was how honest and forthcoming she is. I honestly can’t wait to read her books! Today, she’s here to share with us a little bit about her past in a garage sale of her teenage years. Let’s see what she would have parted with shall we? Visit her at: http://www.gabriellagoliger.com/index.html Some of the items listed are things I never would have wanted to own in the first place, so they would be free, or…
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A garage sale of Jim Maher’s teenage years
Today Jim Maher, author of Hemingway Man, is here to share a little bit about his teenage years in the form of a garage sale! Ever curious what things your favorite author might have amassed as a teen? Well here’s your chance to find out what Jim Maher would sell! A garage sale of my teenage years, hmmm? That was about twelve thousand years ago (or 12, I’m 31 now.) What did I have in high school? -Nirvana, Green Day, Bob Marley and Offspring CDs -MAD magazine (not the most mature person in the world) -baseball cards -the Wheel of…
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Teenage Garage Sale with Amber Kizer and giveaway!
Amber Kizer, author of Meridian and Wildcat Fireflies, is here today to share a bit about her past in TEENAGE GARAGE SALE! This is my favorite post. We get to see what Amber would put in a garage sale now, if she found things from her teenage years. Ready to take a look back? Let’s go! Hello! Welcome to my Teen Garage Sale! I’ll make all these “or best offer” 1) Earrings The bigger, the bolder, the more dangly, the better. I preferred earrings that were representative of actual things like fish, asparagus (yes, really), birds, frogs, cats, rainbows, stars…you get…
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Teenage Garage Sale – Liz Gallagher’s Edition!
Tweet Being grilled on the blog today is Liz Gallagher, author of recently published My Not So Still Life. She’s here today to share a little bit about her past in a post that we invented on The Teen {Book} Scene called “Teenage Garage Sale”. Let’s see what things we might be able to buy if we went back to Liz’s teen days! Ooh, fun. Picturing my old room … I’d have oodles of cassette tapes to sell. As a young teen, I wouldn’t have parted with any New Kids on the Block or Debbie Gibson. They would’ve been priceless.…