Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Crank, Burned, Impulse, Glass, Identical, Tricks, Fallout, Perfect, Tilt, Smoke, and Rumble, as well as the adult novels Triangles and Collateral. She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she has founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative. Visit her at EllenHopkins.com and on Facebook, and follow her on Twitter at @EllenHopkinsYA. For more information on Ventana Sierra, go to VentanaSierra.org. (added from Simon & Schuster)… (more)

Ellen Hopkins Ellen Hopkins Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. Author Talk and Book Signing Books & Company Join NY Times Best Selling Author Ellen Hopkins for an evening at our store! She will also be appearing at "Why Can't You Hear Me?" as a Keynote Speaker Engaging Young Writers on Gender Violence and Human Trafficking, and she will speak on her experiences as an author and a mouthpiece for controversial topics among youth. She will also speak to how young people can find their creative voice and an audience to hear it, in hopes of creating meaningful differences in everyone's lives. For more information http://mtmary.edu/majors-programs/undergraduate/justice/untoldstories/untoldstor... Thursday, March 5, 2015 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Alverno College Ellen Hopkins is a poet, freelance writer, and award-winning author of twenty nonfiction titles and nine NY Times Bestselling young adult novels-in-verse, plus two adult novels. Ellen mentors other writers through her position as a regional adviser for the Nevada chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. In 2012, Ellen founded Ventana Sierra, Inc., whose mission is to help disadvantaged youth into safe housing and working toward career goals through higher education, vocational training and the arts

Location: Street: 1039 Summit Ave City: Oconomowoc, Province: Wisconsin Postal Code: 53066-4457 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

What: Ellen Hopkins will discuss and sign Rumble, her newest novel for young adults. When: Tuesday, September 30, 7:00 pm Where: Blue Willow Bookshop, 14532 Memorial Drive, Houston, Texas, 77079 Admission: In order to go through the signing line and meet Ellen Hopkins, please purchase Rumble from Blue Willow Bookshop. At the time of your purchase, we will issue a signing line ticket that indicates your place in line. Your book and signing line ticket can be picked up at the event. About the Author: Ellen Hopkins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many books for teens, including CRANK, IMPULSE, and TILT, as well as the adult novels TRIANGLES and COLLATERAL. She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she has founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative. Visit her at EllenHopkins.com and on Facebook, and follow her on Twitter at @EllenHopkinsYA. For more information on Ventana Sierra, go to VentanaSierra.org. Book: Matthew Turner doesn't have faith in anything. Not in family--his is a shambles after his younger brother was bullied into suicide; not in so-called friends who turn their backs when things get tough; not in some all-powerful creator who lets too much bad stuff happen; and certainly not in some "It Gets Better" psychobabble. No matter what his girlfriend, Hayden, says about faith and forgiveness, there's no way Matt's letting go of blame. He's decided to "live large and go out with a huge bang," and whatever happens happens. But when a horrific event plunges Matt into a dark, silent place, he hears a Rumble...a Rumble that wakes him up, calling everything he's ever disbelieved into question. Ordering: A limited number of autographed copies of Ellen’s book will be available for purchase after the event. If you cannot attend the event, and would like a personalized copy of her book, please call us before the event at (281) 497-8675. If you can't attend the event or need a copy shipped to you, you may call the store or add the appropriate book to your cart on our website. Payment type must be "CreditCard." In the order notes, add personalization details. To place an international order, please email orders@bluewillowbookshop.com to obtain shipping details and to have items shipped to you. Staff will respond within 24-48 hours. Attachment Size EllenHopkinsThumb.jpg 24.13 KB

Location: Street: 14532 Memorial Dr City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77079 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

7PM WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27 Teen Event | Ellen Hopkins | Rumble

LOCATION: CHANGING HANDS TEMPE

#1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins visits with Rumble, the story that explores the highly charged landscapes of faith and forgiveness with brilliant sensitivity and emotional resonance.

Hopkins again tackles hot-button subjects through free verse, taking on cyberbullying, censorship, the role of religion, and the difficulties of veterans returning from war. At the center of her overstuffed but well-constructed story is smart, opinionated 18-year-old Matt, who is struggling with anger and a disintegrating family following the suicide of his gay younger brother, Luke. Matt leans on his girlfriend, Hayden, for support, while raging against her religion and the evangelical Christians whose bullying he blames for Luke's death. When Hayden's father tries to get the school board to remove copies of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Matt counters that "Maybe if the kids who drove over the brink had read the right books, they would've understood that being gay doesn't make you bad or even different." A violent twist very late in the story leaves Matt with new, life-altering challenges. Still, Hopkins expertly documents Matt's increasing ability to accept and love others in his life, and eventually himself.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Ellen Hopkins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten novels-in-verse novels for teens, as well as the adult novels Triangles and Collateral. She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she has founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative.

Location: Street: 6428 S McClintock Dr. City: Tempe, Province: Arizona Postal Code: 85283 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

YA Event: Ellen Hopkins and Sonya Sones

Wednesday, September 11, 7:00 p.m.

Two great talents, two new books, twice the fun!

Smoke by Ellen Hopkins

Pattyn Von Stratten’s father is dead, and Pattyn is on the run in this rivetting companion to New York Times bestseller, Burned. After far too many years of abuse at the hands of her father, and after the tragic loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn is desperate for peace. But is it even possible to rebuild a life when everything you’ve known has burned to ash and lies seem far safer than the truth?

To Be Perfectly Honest: A Novel Based on an Untrue Story by Sonya Sones

Fifteen-year-old Colette is addicted to lying. Her shrink says this is because she’s got a bad case of daughter-of-a-famous-movie-star disorder—so she lies to escape from her mother’s massive shadow. But Colette doesn’t see it that way. She says she lies because it’s the most fun she can have with her clothes on. Not that she’s had that much fun with her clothes off. But then she meets Connor...

Location: Street: 1010 El Camino Real City: Menlo Park, Province: California Postal Code: 94025-4349 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

YA AFTERNOON: HILARY SMITH, MICHAEL GRANT, Ellen Hopkins, Lauren Myracle, A.G. Howard & Debra Driza We open our doors to four wonderful young adult authors for a rare late afternoon event. Smith will discuss her debut novel, Wild Awake. And it’s the return of Grant, who will talk about his very popular Fear: A Gone Novel series. Ellen Hopkins is the #1 New York Times author for her young adult titles (Tilt). Popular author for teens and tweens Lauren Myracle (Shine) stops in. We also welcome A.G. Howard who brings his book, Splintered and Debra Driza with her latest, MILA 2.0. SATURDAY, JUNE 29 at 4:30 p.m. Anderson's Bookshop Naperville | 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville

Location: Street: Anderson's Bookshop Naperville Additional: 123 W Jefferson Ave City: Naperville, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60540 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

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.

Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)