Stephanie is now a staff writer for ROOKIE, an online magazine for teenage girls created by Tavi Gevinson! Check it out:



Stephanie has a Tumblr! Follow her here to see the what is inspiring her, including muses for her latest book!


Teaching web tool available for Ballads of Suburbia! Teacher, Melissa Williamson put up a site that can help teachers, librarians, or book clubs lead discussions about and do exercises based on Ballads of Suburbia. It's an incredible website! Check it out here.

Skype Visits now available for classrooms, libraries, and book clubs! Check out my profile on Skype An Author for more information.

Stephanie joins new blog YA Outside The Lines! The MTV Books blog has closed, but that is only so that my fellow MTV Books authors and I could team up with some other amazing YA authors to bring you a great new site chock full of musings from authors who push the boundaries and write from their hearts. Visit YA Outside The Lines to experience the awesomeness.

The great reviews are rolling in for Ballads of Suburbia! Check them out here.

Ballads of Suburbia is on sale now! My second book, Ballads of Suburbia was released on July 21, 2009. Get it on Amazon or through your local indie bookstore. Read all about it, including an excerpt here!

Listen to me read the Epilogue (which really functions like a prologue) to Ballads of Suburbia! You can hear it at The Reading List. Just click on featured writers and you'll find me!

Author Cecil Castellucci lists I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone among her picks for YA Books that rock in the LA Times! Read about it here.

New reading dates have been announced! Visit the gigs page regularly for updated events news!

Booklist calls Ballads of Suburbia "....an intensely real and painfully honest novel of high-school anxiety." As Ballads reviews roll in, find them here.

New interviews and articles! Here is my interview DEMO Magazine about Ballads of Suburbia. You can catch up on all my interviews in the Media Blitz section.

Here's the Ballads of Suburbia book trailer:



IWBYJR is a finalist for OK-RWA's National Readers' Choice Awards in the First Book and Young Adult categories! Thanks readers!

IWBYJR in Venus Zine's winter issue! On page 43 of the winter issue of Venus Zine which hits newsstands on December 1st, you'll find a full page spread on IWBYJR which was voted #2 in the "Best Book" category of the 2008 Hottt List! This is a huge honor and thank you to everyone who voted for the book!

Outtakes from IWBYJR posted! I shared 7 deleted scenes or alternate takes from IWBYJR in the outtakes section! If you finished the book and are hungry for more, check it out!

I WANNA BE YOUR JOEY RAMONE is available now! What are you waiting for? Go out and get it!

First chapter of IWBYJR now online! Check it out on Simon & Schuster's website!

NewCity Lit 50! I was both shocked and elated to discover that I'm # 50 on the NewCity Lit 50. Pretty amazing considering the company I'm keeping on the list. Check it out!

My second novel, BALLADS OF SUBURBIA, has sold to MTV Books!

Q&A and more on Simon & Schuster's IWBYJR page. Check it out!

Read the first chapter of IWBYJR in Black Oak Presents! Click here for the PDF of the Spring 2008 issue.

Reviews of IWBYJR keep rollin' in! You can keep up with them in the IWBYJR Reviews section.

Get the new IWBYJR banners! Located in the downloads section. Show your love for the book by plastering them on your website, myspace, etc.

See the full front and back cover art for I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone here!

Visit my new blog! http://stephaniekuehnert.blogspot.com. Ok, so it is more revitalized than new. And I plan to blog at least 5 days a week. It's still mirrored on myspace too.

My first interview! Read the Forest Park Review article on me and IWBYJR here! And don't forget to check out other stories, audio, and video by or about me in the Media Blitz section.

Check out the MTV Books blog! http://www.mtvbooks.blogspot.com/ I'll be blogging regularly along with my awesome fellow MTV Books authors such as Jennifer Echols, Caridad Ferrer, Jenny O'Connell, and more!

My first novel I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone out in July 2008!

Stephanie Kuehnert is represented by Adrienne Rosado at the Nancy Yost Literary Agency.

I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone and Ballads of Suburbia cover images copyright Pocket/MTV Books.


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