Interview With Lauren Conrad at Mall of America
June 22, 2009, 9:34 AM
Interview with Lauren Conrad |
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Star of The Hills, fashion designer, and now author, Lauren Conrad, was at Mall of America yesterday for the signing of her book, L.A. Candy. While I was originally supposed to do a video blog with her, her handlers decided last minute that we couldn’t shoot any video.
Le sigh.
But since I had spent the better part of my weekend reading her young adult tome, I decided I should at least ask her a few questions.
The book, which is about a young girl named Jane Roberts who moves to Los Angeles with her best friend and is propositioned by the fictional PopTV to star in a reality show, is obviously loosely based on LC’s experience on The Hills. Although I was incredibly skeptical of whether or not she even wrote the book (she loathed any writing assignments while interning at Teen Vogue), reading the adverb-filled prose and talking with her yesterday leads me to believe that she did, in fact, pick up the pen.
When I asked her about the writing process, she admitted that she originally went to Harper Collins to proposition them about writing a dating or fashion how-to book, but they instead offered her a chance to write a young adult series. She went through the writing process, including outlining all three books and developing her characters, with the help of her publisher, but the words all her own. “The books I love are the ones where you can really here the author’s voice. I just wanted to write a really fun story,” she said………
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