Marlene Perez's Newest Book Deal

Look for Marlene Perez's teen novel The Comeback, scheduled tentatively for Spring 2009 publication. The novel is an amalgam of teen popularity-themed novels with a twist---a popular girl is given the boot by the most exclusive clique at school and concocts a plan to win back her place in the popular circle. Perez is the author of another teen opus Unexpected Development published by Roaring Brook Press.

Isabel Allende's Antonio Banderas Fantasies

In an interview with Greensboro News and Record journalist, Peruvian-born, Chilean-national and The House of Spirits author Isabel Allende elaborated to journalist Tina Firesheets (firesheets...this story has got passion written all over it) about her previously confessed fantasies of Spaniard star Antonio Banderas. "The dream was after meeting him. Of course I have not told him about my erotic fantasies with him. I am a married old lady, and he is young enough to be my son. Why would he want to know such a thing?"

Carmen Rodrigues's Upcoming Novel

Carmen Rodrigues is joining Gaby Triana, Gary Soto, and a host of other Hispanic writers who are writing for a teen audience. The West Palm Beach resident's non-descriptively titled book Not Anything centers around Susie Shannon, a Miami teen who's in the middle of her identity crisis and has to tutor Danny Diaz, a school hottie, and in the process learns more about herself than she imagined.

The book is set to be released in February 2008, six months before her second teen novel A Little Something is scheduled to go on sale.