EPISODE 57 - Mixed Chicks Chat with Marie Lamba, author of "What I Meant"




Mixed Chicks Chat show

Summary: Marie Lamba is author of the humorous young adult novel What I Meantâ?¦ (Random House Books for Young Readers, 2007), which Publisherâ??s Weekly has dubbed â??an impressive debut.â?? It features a biracial teen as the hero in a mainstream story. She also recently completed writing Over My Head, a YA novel about a biracial teenâ??s awkward yet gutsy search for true love. Currently Marie is at work on a third novel entitled Drawn, about a teen artist who moves to England in pursuit of â??normal,â?? only to find sheâ??s unwillingly carrying on her familyâ??s freaky psychic tradition. In addition to her fiction writing, Marie has written and published more than 100 articles, including features in national magazines such as Garden Design, Your Home, and Sports International. Her most recent piece, â??Plotting a Novel Group,â?? appears in the February 2008 issue of Writer's Digest. She is also writing an essay for an anthology about multicultural mothering, which will be published in January 2009 by publisher Wyatt Mackenzie. Marie holds a BA in English and in Literary Art (an individualized major combining writing and fine art) from the University of Pennsylvania, and resides in Doylestown, PA.