Here they are in no particular order (don't make me alphabetize them, please don't!):
John Green: author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns (You should also check out his YouTube channel)
Maureen Johnson: author of Suite Scarlett, Scarlett Fever, 13 Little Blue Envelopes, The Key to the Golden Firebird
Laurie Halse Anderson: author of Speak, Chains, Wintergirls
David Levithan: author of Love is the Higher Law, Boy Meets Boy, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Rachel Cohn: author of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (see above), Gingerbread, Very LeFreak
Patricia McCormick: Sold, Purple Heart, Cut
Libba Bray: author of the Gemma Doyle series and the Printz-winning Going Bovine
Cecil Castellucci: author of The Plain Janes, Beige, Boy Proof
Holly Black: author of Tithe, Valiant, Ironside
Judy Blume: author of--Oh, come on. You know the divine Judy Blume, of course you do.
Jacqueline Woodson: After Tupac & D Foster, Hush, Behind You
Wendy Mass: author of A Mango Shaped Space, Every Soul a Star, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Rachel Vail: author of Gorgeous, Lucky, If We Kiss
Megan McCafferty: Jessica Darling Series
Sarah Dessen: Along for the Ride, Lock and Key, This Lullaby
Carolyn Mackler: author of Tangled, The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, Guyaholic
Markus Zusak: author of The Book Theif, I Am the Messenger
E. Lockhart: author of Fly on the Wall, Dramarama, The Disreputably History of Frankie Landau Banks
Julie Anne Peters: author of By the Time You Read This I'll Be Dead, Luna, Far from Xanadu
Pete Hautman: How to Steal a Car, No Limit, Hole in the Sky
E.R. Frank: Wrecked, Friction, America
Ellen Wittlinger: Parrotfish, Hard Love, Love and Lies
Ned Vizzini: It's Kind of a Funny Story, November, Be More Chill
Lauren Myracle: TTLY, TTFN, L8R, G8r!
Jenny Han: author of The Summer I Turned Pretty and Shug
Justine Larbalestier: author of How to Ditch Your Fairy, Liar, and the Magic or Madness trilogy
Melissa Marr: author of Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange, and Fragile Eternity
Scott Westerfeld: author of the Peeps series, the Uglies series, the Midnighters series, Leviathan
Melissa De La Cruz: author of the Blue Bloods series, the Au Pairs series
These are great places to go to read more about your favorite authors, see what they're working on, and to give them little bits of encouragement to make their day of sitting alone in their office writing more exciting than it is/was, even if you think spending a day that way sounds pretty exciting to you. It gets dull. I promise.
