New book cover! I'm obsessed with her.
MAINE CHARACTERS is like a grown-up Parent Trap, only with affairs and great wine. Out May 13, available for preorder now!
Shawn Johnson naming Nastia Liukin as her daughter's godmother 11 years after they competed against each other in the Olympics is making it VERY HARD for me not to tear up this afternoon!!!
Mamma Mia recordings ranked by how dramatically they belt out, "YES, I've been broken-hearted!"
4. Lily James (2018)
3. ABBA (1975)
2. Meryl Streep (2008)
1. Me (last night, two glasses of wine in)
Years after
@lindsaycrouse
and her boyfriend broke up, he got a new girlfriend: Lady Gaga. I love the bravery and optimism in her
@nytimes
piece about it.
I keep thinking about all the things Meghan had to give up to marry Harry, and I mostly get it. But now she has to wear PANTYHOSE. Forever! I donโt know if I could ever love a man that much.
All these 2009 photos are reminding me how much sleep our generation lost so we could wake up at 6 a.m. to flat-iron our hair before our 7 a.m. school buses.
So sorry to hear about yet another wave of layoffs. I'm open to pitches for Bustle's Lifestyle & Wellness verticals, seeking buzzy reported features on cultural/viral trends, subcultures, relationships, mental health, spirituality, food, and more. first dot last at bustle dot com
Playing With Matches has a cover! It's prettier and punchier than I ever could've imagined. I'm obsessed with it and I hope you are, too.
If you pre-order it, I'll love you forever.
My boyfriend has been working on a birthday surprise with my sister for weeks. Last night, he gave it to me: a printed version of the first โbookโ I ever wrote as a kid. He knew I wanted to be a published author before 25. Heโs incredible.
One thing I can't stop thinking about:
One day in high school, girls were told to sit in groups of three. A teacher told us to look around โ 1 in 3 women are assaulted over the course of their lifetimes.
Where were the boys? What were they learning that day?
Leo DiCaprio is playing Instagram Boyfriend for Camila Morrone, and that's nice for them, but it kills me that he's using a horizontal shot when she clearly needs a vertical one.
So cool of a certain female pop star to advocate for political causes now, a year after I tweeted that she should and her publicist called my company to ask if I had a โpersonal vendettaโ against her.
Today, we're announcing a very special issue of Teen Vogue, guest-edited by
@HillaryClinton
โ the first-ever female Presidential candidate nominated by a major party, a woman who sits at the center of a historic paradigm shift.
In case this helps any aspiring writers out there... here's just a sliver of the rejections my agent and I received before PLAYING WITH MATCHES sold. Rejection is a part of the process. It's NOT the end of your road.
A huge thank you to this extremely nice dude, Wayne from Indiana, who just called me in Maine to tell me he found my Moleskine diary from college on the street in Brooklyn. He is returning it for me because he didnโt want it to get lost. Hello, Midwestern manners!
@TimHerrera
Sophomore year at NYU (of course it was NYU), I went to a Halloween party at a girl's off-campus apartment and complimented her Persian rug. She said, "Oh, whatever, my parents have dozens of these." Later, a friend told me each rug cost $20,000.
@saladinahmed
That we're all "boy-crazy."
I so clearly remember looking around my English class, sophomore year of high school, and thinking, "These are my options? Boys who wear sweatpants eight days a week?"
I achieved everyoneโs worst nightmare today โ running into an ex (I mean, I *literally* collided with him) โ except I was with my boyfriend and my ex was voluntarily wearing a fedora. So.
My boyfriend is having a work lunch at a restaurant with a separate menu dedicated solely to truffles. Meanwhile, I found some Froot Loops in my office's kitchen.
Creative writing pitch call! I run a newsletter called Heartbeat that features original short fiction about love. I'm seeking the following pitches:
โ A Halloween romance.
โ A friends-to-lovers story that takes place at a Friendsgiving celebration.
Plus...
It's here! My new novel HEAD OVER HEELS is out today!
According to
@OprahMagazine
,
@Cosmopolitan
,
@MarieClaire
,
@bustle
, and more, it's a best book of the season.
To everyone who has made this launch feel so extra special, I can't wait until it's safe to give you a hug!
Vanessa Hudgens ~ GLOWING ~ in white marabou with a bouncy blowout mere hours after the news of her breakup hits the internet is the energy we all need to carry in 2020.
My two favorite things on this planet are probably love and Vanderpump Rules, so it was an absurd joy to interview
@stassi
about falling in love with Beau.
My favorite tapas story about my boyfriend is this: This Valentine's Day, he planned a Mamma Mia 2-themed night because he knows it's my favorite movie โ ABBA karaoke, an ABBA coffee table book as a gift, Mediterranean food, the works.
Seinfeld premiered 30 years ago today on July 5, 1989. It's my family's very favorite show โ because of it, our tradition is to say "you're so good-looking" instead of "bless you" when we sneeze. In honor of George Costanza, here's a photo of my family from a few summers back.
Months later, we flew to Barcelona for vacation. Jet-lagged, exhausted, and starving, we stumbled into the first tapas place we found for dinner. I noticed they played a cover from the Mamma Mia soundtrack. And then another. And then another. For two hours.
I'm so ridiculously excited to share the cover of HEAD OVER HEELS! How fabulous is this? I can't stop staring at it and smiling. This publishes on June 23 and you can preorder it now:
One extremely underrated thing about being an adult is the prevalence of CHEESE PLATES. Almost all of my social gatherings now revolve around cheese plates and I could not be happier.
"I've heard people glumly say they 'just met someone on Tinder' with an almost apologetic tone, as if they're sorry they can't conjure up a sweeter story. But there's magic in that story, too." I wrote about romance, luck, and the internet for
@EliteDaily
:
@stfutony
โ graduated high school
โ moved to New York
โ adopted a lil fluff cat
โ graduated college
โย worked two dream jobs
โ fell in love
โ published two books
โย wrote a third book
... and officially spent more than a decade on this dumb site :(
For
@bustle
, I'm seeking personal essays and reported features about living with recurring MS. Pitch me at hannah dot orenstein at bustle dot com. Rates begin at $500. Thank you!