Stupid Fast has been out for almost a year. It’s been really great. I've traveled a bit, met lots of writers and librarians and bloggers. Best of all, though, I've met “elusive” teen boy readers - both through my blog, email and in person. Good stuff.
I do have some concerns, though.
A really smart 16-year-old from Brooklyn wrote to tell me how much he loved Stupid Fast. He also said, “I hate books, always have.” What? A freshman at a high school I visited the other day told me: “I only like two books. Stupid Fast and this other one I can’t remember.” Okay… I have had similar exchanges again and again in the last year. It reinforces the reason I wanted to write Stupid Fast in the first place: there is a good-sized subset of kids who don’t have enough books to read. I was that kind of kid.
