Creative Minds: Lara Zeises (Confessions of a Two-Headed Author)

Target Grade Levels: 7-12

How to Participate:

• Interactive Videoconference Site: Must be a MAGPI member and have H.323 videoconference capabilities. REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
  
  
• Watch the webstream! See instructions on the website . Registration is NOT REQUIRED for this option

Description:

Award-winning young adult novelist Lara M. Zeises has a secret: she's also Lola Douglas, author of True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet and its sequel, More Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet. Want to know how (or why!) Lara, a self-proclaimed dork and pop culture junkie, cooked up her mysterious alter-ego? In this presentation, Lara will explain it all to you: how she became a writer; why she sets the books published under her name in Delaware; how Lola came into existence; what's it's like to have one of your books turned into a Lifetime TV movie (True Confessions, which will air in 2008!); and why it's sometimes difficult when your alter-ego leads a more glamorous life than you do!

In addition, Lara will talk about her adventures in blogging, and how being a blogger has helped improve and inform her writing.

Schools will receive a complimentary copy of Contents Under Pressure, courtesy of Random House Children's Books.

Students participating in this event should be familiar with one or more novels by Lara M. Zeises and/or Lola Douglas - preferably Contents Under Pressure (Zeises) and True Confessions of Hollywood Starlet (Douglas). Students will have ample opportunity to ask questions during this fun, engaging and interactive learning experience!

 For more  information and resources, see the program website at http://www.magpi.net/programs/zeises.html. 

Thursday, March 13, 2008 from 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM (ET)

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