Meet Author Blair Thornburgh @ Ambler
Debut author Blair Thornburgh will visit the Ambler Branch to discuss her debut book, Who's That Girl, and her writing.
Ages 13- 17 ~ Registration Required ~ Great for Teens and Adults!
From girl next door to the top of the charts…
A laugh-out-loud debut filled with hilarious awkward encounters, a supportive LGBTQ organization, and too many cheesy lyrics to count.
Junior Nattie McCullough has always been that under-the-radar straight girl who hangs out in the cafeteria with her gay-straight alliance friends. She’s never been the girl that gets the guy, let alone the girl that gets a hit song named after her.
But when last summer’s crush, smoking-hot musician Sebastian Delacroix—who has recently hit the mainstream big-time—returns home to play a local show, that’s just what she gets. He and his band, the Young Lungs, have written a chart-topping single—“Natalie”—which instantly makes Nattie second guess everything she thought about their awkward non-kiss at that June pool party. That it was horrific. That it meant nothing. That Sebastian never gave her another thought.
To help keep her mind off of Sebastian and his maybe-about-her, maybe-not-about-her song, Nattie throws herself into planning the school’s LGBTQIA dance. That proves problematic, too, when Nattie begins to develop feelings for her good friend Zach. With the song getting major airplay and her once-normal life starting to resemble the cover of a gossip magazine, Nattie is determined to figure out once and for all if her brief moment with Sebastian was the stuff love songs are made of—or just a one-hit wonder.
About the Author
Blair Thornburgh is a writer, editor, Latin nerd, and Joni Mitchell superfan. She lives in Philadelphia.
Longer bio: Blair Thornburgh writes books for and about teenagers with a sense of humor. Her hobbies include forgetting the lyrics to songs, deep dives into obscure corners of Wikipedia, and snacks. During the day she works as an editor at Quirk Books, a slightly more glamorous job than her previous gigs selling flowers and digging up sweet potatoes. She was inspired to write her debut novel, the YA romantic comedy Who’s That Girl, after, among other things, listening to too much pretentious indie rock, spending a weekend yurt-camping in Quebec, and fighting a killer craving for a pumpkin-chocolate-chip cookie. A former teenager, she now lives in her hometown of Philadelphia.
Book Information
Hardcover, 400 pages
Coming July 11, 2017 from HarperTeen
ISBN-10: 0062447777
ISBN-13: 978-0062447777
Contact: blair@blairthornburgh.com
Representation: Uwe Stender of TriadaUS, uwe@triadaus.com
PA Representative Mary Jo Daley will have a mobile office at Ambler branch once a month on the second Monday of the month from 2 to 3:30. Most of the time, her assistant, Lee Mooney, will be here.
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