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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Where can I buy your books?
My books are stocked in most chain bookstores and some indies. The adult books will be in the Romance section, and the young adult books are in the Young Adult section. If you don't see them, just ask. Any bookstore should be able to order them and have them for you in a day or so at no extra charge. They're also in some Walmart stores and grocery stores. You can buy them online at Amazon.com, BarnesAndNoble.com, BooksAMillion.com, and so forth, and they are available as e-books. Levitating Las Vegas will be sold as an e-book only. Who is your publisher?
All of my books are published by Simon & Schuster, but different types of books are published by different divisions of this publisher. The teen romantic comedies are published by Simon Pulse, the teen romantic dramas are published by MTV Books, the new adult romances are published by Pocket Star, and the adult romantic comedies are published by Pocket Books.
When is your next book coming out?
Title: Star Crossed
Title: Levitating Las Vegas
Title: Dirty Little Secret
Title: Playing Dirty
Genre: Teen romantic comedy
Genre: Teen romantic comedy
Genre: Teen romantic comedy
Check back here for more details!
Are you writing sequels to your books?
My first adult romance, Star Crossed, is the first book in the Stargazer series. Each book will center on someone who works for the Stargazer Public Relations firm and will feature a new couple. The second book in the series is Playing Dirty. I would love to write more books in this series, and if the first two sell well, I'm sure I'll get this opportunity!
Similarly, Levitating Las Vegas features Holly and Elijah, and I would love to write another book in the series about their friends Shane and Kaylee. Whether I get the chance depends entirely on whether the first book sells well. So if you read it and enjoy it, please let other people know!
I have three YA romantic comedies coming out in 2014 and 2015, and they are already set up this way: each book features one of three high school friends. I'm really excited about this series!
As for the rest of my YAs, Endless Summer is the sequel to The Boys Next Door (and The Boys Next Door is reprinted in the Endless Summer volume, so if you want to read those, you don't have to buy both). I am not planning any other sequels. However, if you like one of my romantic comedies, you would probably like the others, and the same goes for my romantic dramas.
Why aren't you writing more sequels? PLEEEEEASE.
I have very good reasons for not writing more sequels, and I have laid them out for you here in more detail than you probably wanted.
Where did you get the idea for Forget You?
I had an idea for a novel about an athletic teenage boy who spends the entire story on crutches, and I built the rest of the book around that.
Is John from Going Too Far based on a real person, and can I borrow him?
No.
No. I did grow up on a lake in Alabama like Lori, and I learned to waterski when I was five. Wakeboarding hadn't been invented yet.
Is bryozoa real?
Did someone really smear it on you? Yes. This sort of trauma makes the most compelling fiction.
That's so sweet! Look closer. Were you in marching band like Virginia? Yes! I was the first female drum major of my high school marching band. I also played saxophone (well), drums (a little), trumpet (badly), and oboe (very badly). I wanted to be a high school band director myself, so my first major in college was music education. Then I switched to English and got serious about writing. Do you have any advice for writers? Yes, I am full of it. Waiting Novelists' Survival Kit How to handle your name getting bigger No, I was serious. Oh! I beg your pardon. I've also written an (almost) dead serious post about how to get published .Are you making your novels into movies? I am not in the movie business, but maybe someone else will make my books into movies someday. I've explained how this works here in case you're interested. Are you making your novels into movies? I said no. Are you making your novels into movies? NO. Can you please change your mind about making your novels into movies? Look, who do you think I am, Kathryn Bigelow? I can hardly make dinner. When you make your novels into movies, can I play Lori? Sure. Did you star in The Notebook? No, that's a different Jennifer Echols. Do you have a secretary? You're funny. First I'd get a personal chef. Did you design your own website? Isn't that like asking me if I cut my own hair? I don't mean to insult you. I just wanted to make sure you know that your website looks like Tiger Beat threw up on Sassy. Thank you for your concern. I am doing a report on your books for school and I need your bio. Could you please post one? And don't make up stuff, okay? This is for a grade. I know how you are. Well all RIGHT. Jennifer Echols was born in Atlanta and grew up in a small town on a beautiful lake in Alabama—a setting that has inspired many of her books. Her nine romantic novels for young adults have been published in seven languages and have won the National Readers’ Choice Award, the Aspen Gold Readers’ Choice Award, the Write Touch Readers’ Award, the Beacon, and the Booksellers’ Best Award. Her novel Going Too Far was a finalist in the RITA and was nominated by the American Library Association as a Best Book for Young Adults. Simon & Schuster will debut her adult romance novels in 2013, with many more of her teen novels scheduled for the next few years. She lives in Birmingham with her husband and her son. | |
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Do you wakeboard like Lori in The Boys Next Door and Endless Summer?
Were you a beauty queen like Virginia in Major Crush?