I finally had the chance to meet Jeanine LeNy after many years of circling each others' publishing orbit when she came to speak to my YA writing class. She's the sweetest, and I'm so excited to have her here for our par-tay.
Here's what Jeanine has to say:
I was very naïve in High School--so much so that I wasn’t even aware that there were steps a girl could take to make herself more palatable to the popular crowd.
In retrospect, I guess there were a few things that I might have considered not doing back then such as, not being obsessed with all things tiger print and not wearing a white leather motorcycle jacket Every. Single. Day.
Perhaps the secret language that my BFF and I used in our casual conversations was not cool . . . and, yes, slightly weird. And getting a perm that made my head resemble a light bulb covered with poodle fur was just a bad choice--in any social circle.
But you know what? Now that I’m thinking about it, if I could go back, I wouldn’t change a thing. I would still have that popular cheerleader make nasty comments to me math class. I would still act goofy and wear my father’s old shirts instead of the latest fashions. In fact, I wish I still had that old motorcycle jacket. Okay, maybe that’s going a bit too far, but you get the idea.
I was just being me back then. So what if it wasn’t popular? Sometimes it wasn’t pretty either. But it was real, one hundred percent.
Just the way I like it.
Makes me wish she and I had known each other back when I had my "highlights!" Want to win a copy of one of Jeanine's books? Post a comment, any comment!
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