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Blog Tour: Erin Dionne
Although I haven’t read either of Erin Dionne’s books (but totally want to!), I am impressed by her mad titling skills. I mean, Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies and The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet? Those are some truly excellent titles.
I’m sorta jealous, Erin. Of the titles, and the excellent blurb you got from Lauren Myracle. I loves me some Ms. Myracle.
About The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet
Hamlet Kennedy just wants to be your average, happy, vanilla eighth grader. But with Shakespearean scholar parents who dress in Elizabethan regalia and generally go about in public as if it were the sixteenth century, that’s not terribly easy. It gets worse when they decide that Hamlet’s genius sevenyear- old sister will attend middle school with her– and even worse when the Shakespeare project is announced and her sister is named the new math tutor. By the time an in-class recitation reveals that our heroine is an extraordinary Shakespearean actress, Hamlet can no longer hide from the fact that she–like her family–is anything but average.
About Erin Dionne
Erin Dionne’s debut novel, Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies, was inspired by events that occurred in seventh grade, when she wore a scary peach bridesmaid dress in her cousin’s wedding and threw up on her gym teacher’s shoes (not at the same event). Although humiliating at the time, these experiences are working for her now. Erin lives outside of Boston with her husband and daughter, and a very insistent dog named Grafton. She roots for the Red Sox, teaches English at an art college, and sometimes eats chocolate cookies.
Advice from Erin Dionne
What’s one of the best pieces of advice you’ve ever received?
Do what you love, the money will follow. SO TRUE!! If you devote yourself to your passion, everything works out okay.
What’s one of the worst pieces of advice you’ve ever received?
To play it safe. I firmly believe that taking risks are the only ways we can grow.
What advice would you give to your sixteen-year-old self, knowing all that you know now?
Enjoy who you are right now and wear a bikini! You look great!!! Any crappy stuff you’re experiencing now won’t matter in two months, let alone two years from now.