Maureen Johnson

Maureen Johnson (born: )https://web.archive.org/web/20110526153814/http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/faq/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/56094-maureen-johnson-the-queen-of-teen.html is an author.
==Personal life==
Maureen was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and has lived in New York since 1997.https://twitter.com/maureenjohnson/status/1023306629058637825 She was an only child, and was interested in reading and writing from an early age.
Although she is not Catholic, she attended an all-girl Catholic prep high school.https://web.archive.org/web/20110325053451/http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/about/ She graduated from the University of Delaware. She was a writing major, and spent most of her time working on shows. After college, Maureen became the literary manager of a Philadelphia theater company. Soon after that, she moved to New York to study theatrical dramaturgy and writing at Columbia University School of the Arts. She has an MFA in Writing from Columbia University.https://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/about/
She is married,https://twitter.com/maureenjohnson/status/1417157158337224706 and has a dog.https://www.instagram.com/p/CRNidzzLva6/ Maureen became a vegetarian in 1994, for “MANY REASONS.”https://twitter.com/maureenjohnson/status/38423732288491520 She was voted a "Top Tweeter" by Time Magazine and "The Most Interesting Twitter User to Follow" by Mashable.com in 2009.http://www1.udel.edu/udmessenger/vol20no1/stories/alumni-johnson-testerman.html She is naturally immune to chickenpox.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-lszuTaOXo&t=66s
==YouTube==
Maureen uploaded her first video, The Official Wizard of Brotherhood 2.0, on May 17, 2007.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVtR87E7Nzo She substituted for John Green on when he was on paternity leave.https://web.archive.org/web/20110526153814/http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/faq/
==BEDA==
BEDA stands for Blog Every Day April. It started in March 2009, when Maureen realized she was behind on her blog, and tweeted “Hey, I think I will blog every day in April.” Then she got in the shower. When she got out, people had already signed on, announcing they would do the same. BEDA ended up with five hundred registered participants, and many others doing the project on their own. Throughout the project, Maureen featured a reader’s blog every day, and did a “BEDA BUDDIES” project, where she took one hundred applications and matched people into groups of four to be reading and blogging partners.https://web.archive.org/web/20110526153814/http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/faq/
==Politics==
===YA For Obama===
In 2008, Maureen founded YA for Obama, a social network of Young Adult writers and fans who joined together in support of Barack Obama’s election campaign. The authors involved authors such as Judy Blume, John Green, Scott Westerfeld, Meg Cabot, Megan McCafferty, Holly Black, and Libba Bray. Judy Blume was the first author to post on the site.https://web.archive.org/web/20081231211342/http://yaforobama.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2246335:BlogPost:1396 After just a few days, it had over 700 members.https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2008/09/authors-of-youn.html The site accepted everyone, including people who weren’t young adults, non-Americans, people who didn’t support Obama, and “a kind of sponge-cheese hybrid that has developed sentience.”https://web.archive.org/web/20090808092656/http://yaforobama.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2246335:BlogPost:1764 YA For Obama has a YouTube channel, which has four videos.https://www.youtube.com/user/YaforObama
===Says Who?===
Says Who? is a podcast by Maureen Johnson and Dan Sinker. They started covering the final weeks of the 2016 US presidential election, and planned to make eight episodes. They now discuss weekly news. The website states that it is “not a podcast—it’s a coping strategy.”https://www.sayswhopodcast.com/ They have a Patreon, a Facebook group, and merchandise.
==Writing==
Maureen is the editor of How I Resist.https://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/how-i-resist/ Maureen’s work has appeared in a number of news publications, such as The New York Times, Buzzfeed, and The Guardian. She has also served as a scriptwriter for EA Games.https://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/about/
===The Truly Devious Trilogy===
This series consists of Truly Devious, The Vanishing Stair, and The Hand On The Wall. The books were New York Times and USA Today Bestsellers, Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2018, Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books in 2018 and 2019, a Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction in 2018, 2019, and 2020, the 2018 Nerdy Book Club Young Adult Winner, and the Junior Library Guild Selection in 2019 and 2020. They received a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Nomination in 2019, ALA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults Nomination, and was one of Popsugar’s 25 Best YA Mysteries of All Time.https://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/the-truly-devious-series/
===The Box in the Woods===
This book features Stevie Bell, the protagonist of the Truly Devious series, in a stand-alone mystery. It was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller, one of the Cosmopolitan Best YA Books of 2021, the People Magazine Best Book of Summer 2021, the Publishers Weekly Best Summer Read 2021, and the Indie Next Kids’ Pick June/July 2021.https://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/the-box-in-the-woods/
===Hello, Cruel Heart===
This is the story of teenage Cruella de Vil, in an original novel inspired by the Disney film Cruella. It was released on April 6, 2021.https://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/hello-cruel-heart/ She “used a lot of music in the creation of this book.”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cruella-prequel-novel-hello-cruel-heart-debuting-in-2021-4092011/
===Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances===
, which was co-authored with John Green and Lauren Myracle, was a New York Times bestseller, and is now a film on Netflix.https://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/let-it-snow/ It is a trio of interconnected novellas, each by a different author. Maureen’s is titled Jubilee Express.https://www.booklistonline.com/Let-It-Snow-Three-Holiday-Romances-John-Green/pid=2909531?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
===The Blue Envelope series===
This series consists of and The Last Little Blue Envelope.https://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/the-blue-envelope-series/
===The Scarlett series===
The Scarlett series consists of Suite Scarlett and Scarlett Fever.https://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/the-scarlett-series/. Suite Scarlett came out in May 2008. The original title was Empire Suite.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-lszuTaOXo&t=47s The sequel, Scarlett Fever, came out on February 1, 2010.https://web.archive.org/web/20110325053451/http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/about/ Scarlet Fever is dedicated to .https://web.archive.org/web/20110526153814/http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/faq/ She announced a third book, but it was never published.https://twitter.com/maureenjohnson/status/474313033951764480
===Devilish===
Devilish was very loosely based on Maureen’s Catholic high school experiences.https://web.archive.org/web/20110325053451/http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/about/ It was a Finalist for the Andre Norton Award, named one of the ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2006, and was one of the New York Public Library’s “Books for the Teen Age 2007”.https://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/devilish/
===The Key to the Golden Firebird===
 came out in May 2004.https://web.archive.org/web/20110325053451/http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/about/ It was named one of the ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2004, one of the New York Public Library’s “Books for the Teen Age 2005”, a Junior Library Guild 2004 YA pick, and a Borders Original Voices program selection.https://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/the-key-to-the-golden-firebird/
===Girl at Sea===
Girl at Sea was released in June 2007. It is a European fantasy, taking place off the coast off Italy.https://web.archive.org/web/20110325053451/http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/about/ It was the Book Sense Summer 2007 Children’s Pick.https://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/girl-at-sea/ It came from “a powerful childhood obsession with Pompeii and the Titanic.”https://web.archive.org/web/20110526153814/http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/faq/
===On the Count of Three===
This book was formerly known as The Bermudez Triangle. It was named as one of ALA’s Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, GLTBQ list, one of the New York Public Library’s “Books for the Teen Age 2006”, and was a Winter 2004 Book Sense Pick.https://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/on-the-count-of-three/ The final edits were completed on a writing fellowship in Edinburgh, Scotland.https://web.archive.org/web/20110325053451/http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/about/
====Legal restrictions====
Due to it’s portrayal of a lesbian couple, some people considered banning the book, once in Oklahoma, and once in Florida. In March 2007, in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Angela Rader formed a committee to challenge the book’s inclusion in a public library, because she didn’t think “homosexual materials belong in our schools.” There is no sex in the book.https://archive.today/20120701125416/http://archive.examiner-enterprise.com/articles/2007/05/10/community/com804.txt#selection-365.117-365.160 In both cases, the book was kept on the shelf, but with restrictions. In one of these cases, a librarian of over thirty years gave up her job rather than back down.https://web.archive.org/web/20110526153814/http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/faq/ In an interview with the Kid’s Right to Read Project, Maureen said: “This “we aren’t banners, we just think those are adult themes and therefore the books must be labeled/moved to the adult section/require permission to take out” nonsense . . . why, exactly? What is particularly adult about being gay? There are gay kids, gay teens. They have to go on awkward first dates, like all the wrong people, obsess over their crushes, have their hearts broken, fall in love with friends, get permission from their parents to go out, try to borrow the car . . . There are loads of YA books about those things featuring heterosexual characters, and no one bats an eye. Why is it so adult if gay kids are doing it?” She does not see her book as controversial.
===The Shadowhunter Chronicles===
====The Bane Chronicles====
 were originally released one-by-one as e-only short stories by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, and Maureen Johnson. This compilation presents all ten together in print for the first time and includes a never-before-seen eleventh tale, as well as illustrated material. The single print edition was released in 2014.https://ew.com/article/2012/12/10/cassandra-clare-the-bane-chronicles-sarah-rees-brennan-maureen-johnson/ It was a New York Times and USA Today Bestseller, and a Winter 2014-15 Indie Next Pick.https://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/the-bane-chronicles/
====Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy====
 is a collection of short stories, written by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, and Robin Wasserman. It was a New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller.https://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/tales-shadowhunter-academy/ It was released in print on November 15, 2016.
====Ghosts of the Shadow Market====
This book was co-written with Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Kelly Link, and Robin Wasserman.https://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/shadowhunter-chronicles/
===Vacations from Hell: The Law of Suspects===
Maureen co-authored Vacations from Hell: The Law of Suspects with Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Claudia Gray, and Sarah Mlynowski.https://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/vacations-hell-law-suspects/
===Zombies vs. Unicorns===
Maureen has a story in the Zombies vs. Unicorns collection, edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier. It was released on September 21, 2010.https://web.archive.org/web/20110325053451/http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/about/
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