Monday, May 7th Chat Session with Jay Asher
1:20-2:15 pm (11:20 am -12:15 pm Pacific)
**THIS CHAT SESSION HAS ENDED**
The rules are pretty simple. There are only two. Rule number one: You listen. Number two: You pass it on. Hopefully, neither one will be easy for you. (from Cassette 1: Side A)
Hannah Baker records the defining moments of the past few years of her life onto seven audiotapes. Thirteen stories involving several people at her school. She packs the tapes into a shoebox and mails them to the first person on the list. Then, she goes home to kill herself.
Two weeks later, Clay Jensen comes home from school to find a box with no return address leaning against his front door. Inside are seven audiotapes, their sides labeled 1 through 13 in blue nail polish. He has no idea what’s on the tapes, which is kind of exciting…until he presses PLAY.
With Hannah’s voice as his narrator, Clay spends the rest of the night wandering through town, visiting places mentioned on the tapes, unearthing the thirteen reasons why Hannah chose to kill herself.
And one reason belongs to him.
About Jay Asher
Jay began Thirteen Reasons Why in Wyoming while working simultaneously as an assistant children’s librarian and a bookseller at an independent bookstore. He continued working on the manuscript after moving back to California’s central coast where he found jobs at a chain bookstore, a discount bookstore, and…finally!…back in the public library system. While he works on his second novel for teens, he hopes to sell at least one of the many picture books or humorous middle grade novels he’s written.
To learn more about Jay, visit his blog Disco Mermaids or his My Space Page.
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I hope your hair is in good and tight.
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did you ever written a book about yourself?
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Advice: Don’t give up. It took me around 12 years to sell my book…but I’m glad this is going to be the book to introduce me to the readers.
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How did you get your agent and what does it mean when you say that your book went to auction?
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Do you wish you were really really famous?
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how old are you
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I never wrote exactly about myself, but I know that all of my main characters are different aspects of myself.
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when will the book Thirteen Reasons why be coming out
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What author do u relate to more, and who is your favorite author?
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It comes out this October…as does the audiobook.
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when does your book come out
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Every author for teens I’ve ever met is amazing. Gordon Korman is probably the one I’d love to hang out with the most…and he might be my favorite author.
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what was your favorite subject in high school?
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I’m 31…is that bad?
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Are you proud of who you’ve become, and do you believe that you can achieve your dreams? No matter how “farfetched” it may be.
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no not at all
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Favorite subject? Um…you got me…
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Hi Jay:
I just returned from dragging Judson down the hall. Thank you for spending time with us, and please excuse those students who have short term memory loss and continue to ask the same questions.
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thank you for all the time you have spent with us its been alot of fun!!!:lol:
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I felt really silly telling people “I wanna write books.” But now that I can say it’ll actually be out, I feel a lot better.
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Thank you…I just realized there were a few questions I missed. Sorry!
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Jay—I know time is up. If there are any sane unanswered questions still in the queue and, if you have time, could you email the answers to Sasha? She’ll pass them on to us. We truly appreciate your time, and your sense of humor, and we’re looking forward to your book.
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I’ll do that. Thanks!
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Jay – Great session.
Patrizia will send youthe transcript and
any unanswered questions you can fill in later and she’ll forward it to Ms. Allan.
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Hey Jay
I’m in grade 9, and i’m doing my very first novel study on this book. One of the tasks is to create a new book cover for this story. I was thinking audio tapes on a table with pills, or.. well i’m actually not sure. Any ideas?