This week on the Girlfriends’ Cyber Circuit: Tanya Stone, debut author of the young adult novelA Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl (hmm, I suspected as much!), just out from Random House. Here’s what Tanya had to say about the musical accompaniment to her novel:
There actually is a real live soundtrack! My hubby made it for the launch party and we played it that night. We also made one for the woman who helped me pull off the event (teen actors performed a play I scripted based on the book). OK, so on this CD are: Alanis Morissette’s Princess Familiar and You Learn, Carole King’s Bad Boy (of course) and I Feel the Earth Move, Joni Mitchell, Dar Williams, Ani DiFranco, Sheryl Crow, The Roches, Fiona Apple, Bonnie Raitt, Liz Phair, the Indigo Girls, and the song One Thousand Kisses, from RENT. As for a song title that would make a great book title, Tanya chose Alanis’s Uninvited.

About the Book:
Why are so many women attracted to the “bad” boy? You know him—you went to high school with one, and maybe were involved with that boy yourself. He’s the golden boy, maybe a star athlete, and always in the “in” crowd. And he is BAD with a capital B. But can being involved with the wrong guy end up being good for you? In this provocative debut novel, Tanya Lee Stone explores this idea and takes an honest look at love and sex. A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl is the story of three very different girls and their relationships with one bad boy.

“Meet Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva—three girls who’ve got something to tell you that you definitely want to hear. Tanya Lee Stone has written a book that’s crawl-under-the-skin true filled with humor, hope, a little heartbreak, and the kind of tell-it-like-it-is wisdom that comes from your best girlfriends. It’s irresistible.”
– Libba Bray, author of A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels

“Stone’s novel packs a steamy, emotional wallop,…The lessons learned here are important.” – Booklist

“…3 smart girls + 1 slick senior boy = 1 sharply observed novel about sex, sisterhood, and self-respect.” – Reading Rants!

Catch Tanya on the road talking about sex and fiction (oh, yes, these are favorite subjects of mine!) during the Random House Teen Author Tour April 17-28. The tour stops in Chicago, Dayton, OH, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City. Stone will be touring with fellow GCC member E. Lockhart for her new release, Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything.