My books are stocked in the Young Adult or Teen section of most chain bookstores and some indies. 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. You can buy them online at Amazon.com, BarnesAndNoble.com, BooksAMillion.com, and so forth, and they are available as e-books. You can also find Love Story in Kroger.

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, and the adult romantic comedies are published by Pocket Books.

When is your next book coming out?

Title: The One That I Want
Genre: Teen romantic comedy
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Date: E-book on December 6, 2011; paperback on February 7, 2012

Title: Winter's Kiss, an anthology containing my previously published book The Ex Games
Genre: Teen romantic comedy
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Date: January 3, 2012

Title: Such a Rush
Genre: Teen romantic drama
Publisher: MTV Books
Date: July 10, 2012

Genre: Adult romantic comedy
Publisher: Pocket Books
Date: April 2013

Genre: Teen romantic drama
Publisher: MTV Books
Date: July 2013

Genre: Adult romantic comedy
Publisher: Pocket Books
Date: September 2013

Check back here for more details!

I am a book blogger. Will you send me a copy of one of your books for review?

Absolutely. Please e-mail me at at echolsjenn at yahoo dot com with the title of the book you want to review, your snail-mail address, and the web address of your book blog.

Are you writing sequels to your books?

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 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.

Do you wakeboard like Lori in The Boys Next Door and Endless Summer?

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?

Oh yes.

Did someone really smear it on you?

Yes. This sort of trauma makes the most compelling fiction.

Were you a beauty queen like Virginia in Major Crush?

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.

How to let go of a manuscript

How to take an author photo

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. She has written eight romantic novels for young adults, including the comedy Major Crush, which won the National Readers’ Choice Award, and the drama Going Too Far, which was a finalist in the RITA, the National Readers’ Choice Award, and the Book Buyer’s Best, and was nominated by the American Library Association as a Best Book for Young Adults. Her next two teen dramas, including Such a Rush, will appear in 2012 and 2013, with her adult romance novels debuting in 2013, all published by Simon & Schuster. She lives in Birmingham with her husband and her son.