Ellen Hopkins

Join us on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 7pm UBC Bookstore at Robson Square for readings by dramatic monologues artist Walid Bitar (Divide and Rule), the engaging Basma Kavanagh (Distillō) and the "weird and funny" Missy Marston (The Love Monster). Admission is free and books will be available for purchase and signing.

In Divide and Rule, Walid Bitar delivers a sequence of dramatic monologues, variations on the theme of power, each in rhymed quatrains. Though the pieces grow out of Bitar’s personal experiences over the last decade, both in North America and the Middle East, he is not primarily a confessional writer. Bitar’s enigmatic speakers are partially rational creatures, have some need to explain, and may succeed in partially explaining, but, in the end, communication and subterfuge are inseparable – must, so to speak, co-exist.

Basma Kavanagh’s debut collection, Distillō, engages the natural world and seeks to explore our relationship to it. Hers is a poetics of description which subverts scientific observation and the authoritative language of nomenclature for mythopoetic ends. This is a book which turns over rocks and looks under them in search of truth in its soft, damp hiding places, poems which instruct us to “descend. Blend /your knowing with the breath of earth”.

The Love Monster is the tall tale of one woman’s struggle with mid-life issues. Missy Marston takes the reader on a hilarious journey of recovery. Hope comes in various forms including a love-sick alien speaking in the voice of Donald Sutherland. More than an irreverent joyride, The Love Monster is also a sweet and tender look at the pain and indignity of being an adult human and a sincere exploration of the very few available remedies: art, love, religion, relentless optimism, and alien intervention. (RobsonReadingSeries)… (more)

FOR TEENS: Love—good and bad—forces three teens’ worlds to Tilt in a riveting novel from New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins. Three teens, three stories—all interconnected through their parents’ family relationships. As the adults pull away, caught up in their own dilemmas, the lives of the teens begin to Tilt….Mikayla, almost eighteen, is over-the-top in love with Dylan, who loves her back jealously. But what happens to that love when Mikayla gets pregnant the summer before their senior year—and decides to keep the baby? Shane turns sixteen that same summer and falls hard in love with his first boyfriend, Alex, who happens to be HIV positive. Shane has lived for four years with his little sister’s impending death. Can he accept Alex’s love, knowing that his life, too, will be shortened? Harley is fourteen—a good girl searching for new experiences, especially love from an older boy. She never expects to hurdle toward self-destructive extremes in order to define who she is and who she wants to be. Love, in all its forms, has crucial consequences in this standalone novel, Tilt.

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The last thing Ashley expected to be was a military wife. But Cole doesn't match the stereotype of the aggressive military man she'd always presumed to be true; he's passionate and romantic, and he even writes poetry. Their relationship evolves into a deeply felt, sexually charged love affair that goes on for five years and survives four deployments. Cole desperately wants Ashley to marry him, but when she meets another man, a college professor, with similar professional pursuits and values, she begins to see what life might be like outside the shadow of war. Written in Ellen Hopkins's stunning poetic verse style, Collateral captures the hearts of the soldiers on the battlefield and the minds of the friends, family, and lovers they leave behind.

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This is a story that, when told directly, shuts people up, the kind of story that drives people to change the subject, or cross the street when they see the teller coming. In 1949, author Dorothy Foltz-Gray and her identical twin sister, Deane, were born. In 1981, Deane, then a psychologist, was fatally shot by one of her patients. In the years between, the pair formed an almost supernaturally close bond, one so intimate that at times, their memories fused and their individual identities dimmed. Here, Foltz-Gray, an award-winning poet and journalist, recounts not only the extraordinary phenomenon of growing up in a world that could not distinguish her from another human being, but also the struggle to survive the loss of her twin. Foltz-Gray describes the imagined womb life she and her sister shared, their childhood and family, and their dreams of sharing each other's lives. She also details the nightmare of her sister's death, its immediate aftermath, and her attempts to recover her self. With and Without Her is the story of what happens when a life divides into before and after. It is a story of identity and individuation, confusion and competition, intimacy and separation, violence and murder. Most of all, it is the story we all face, of loss and survival. Join us at Longfellow Books to hear this touching story, and hear Dorothy talk about her journey. (timspalding)… (more)

Ellen Hopkins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Crank, Burned, Impulse, Glass, Identical, Tricks, Fallout, and Perfect, as well as the adult novel Triangles. She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada. Visit her at EllenHopkins.com and on Facebook, and follow her on Twitter at @EllenHopkinsYA.

Mana's Bookshop will be selling books at this off-site event.

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Ellen Hopkins promotes Tilt.

In Tilt, the new teen novel from Ellen Hopkins (Perfect, Crank, Burned), three teens are connected through their parents’ relationships. Mikayla, almost 18, is in love with Dylan. But what happens to that love when she gets pregnant and keeps the baby? Shane turns 16 and falls in love with Alex, who is HIV positive. Can he accept Alex’s love, knowing that his life will be shortened? Harley is 14—a good girl searching for love from an older boy. She never expects to hurdle toward self-destructive extremes in order to define who she is and who she wants to be. Love, in all its forms, has crucial consequences in this novel. (jpmoore)… (more)

Ellen Hopkins promotes Tilt.

Ellen Hopkins, the author of New York Times numerous bestselling young adult novels — Crank, Burned, Impulse, Glass, Identical, Tricks, Fallout, and Perfect — as well as adult novels, will read from and sign her new stand-alone novel for teens Tilt (Simon & Schuster). Three teens, three stories, are all interconnected through their parents’ family relationships. As the adults pull away, caught up in their own dilemmas, the worlds of the teens begin to tilt, as love—the good kind and the bad—brings into focus the continuing presence of HIV in teens' lives and the urgency of making better choices about sex. (jpmoore)… (more)

About the Author:

Ellen Hopkins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of CRANK, BURNED, IMPULSE, GLASS, IDENTICAL, TRICKS, FALLOUT and PERFECT, as well as the adult novel TRIANGLES. She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada. Visit her at EllenHopkins.com and on Facebook, and follow her on Twitter at @EllenHopkinsYA.

Book:

In Tilt, Ellen Hopkins takes a piercing look at the way parents’ poor choices and deceit dramatically affect their teenage children. In this, the YA companion to her debut adult novel TRIANGLES, Hopkins addresses the death of a sibling, falling in love with someone who is HIV positive, teen pregnancy, and giving too much of yourself away to please an abusive boyfriend.

Caught in the midst of their parents’ midlife crises, three teens are left to fend for themselves as their formerly secure and familiar worlds are turned upside down. Mikayla is sure she’s found the love her parents seem to have lost, but is suddenly weighing nearly impossible choices in the wake of dashed expectations. Shane has come out, unwilling to lie anymore about who he is, but finds himself struggling to keep it all under control in the face of first love and a horrific loss. Harley, a good girl just seeking new experiences, never expects to hurtle towards self-destructive extremes in order to define who she is and who she wants to be.

Intense, gripping, and thought-provoking, Tilt explores the ways we each find the strength we need to hold on when our world’s been Tilted completely off its axis.

What: Ellen Hopkins will discuss and sign her newest novel for young adults, Tilt.

When: Tuesday, September 11, 7:00 p.m.

Where: Blue Willow Bookshop, 14532 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77079

Admission: In order to go through the signing line and meet Ellen Hopkins for book personalization, please purchase Tilt from Blue Willow Bookshop.

A limited number of autographed copies of Ellen’s books will be available for purchase after the event. If you cannot attend the event, but would like a personalized copy of her book, please call us before the event at (281) 497-8675.

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