![]() ![]() "It's funny to remember the girl I first chatted with on the phone, who kept a journal about her life in small town - and to then see that girl here in Manhattan meeting the crowd of people at her publisher, or seeing her looking so chic at her photo shoots," Maya's literary agent, Dan Lazar, says. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play Harris, executive producer of The Carrie Diaries, developing the script. Now DreamWorks is making Popular into a movie, with Amy B. Last year, Maya signed a two-book deal with Penguin Young Readers imprint Dutton Children's that reportedly came with a $300,000 advance. Even cooler, New York literary agents - and Hollywood producers - took notice. Maya's social circle expanded and her confidence soared. A few years ago, armed with a 1950s-era advice manual written by former teen model Betty Cornell, the self-proclaimed "geek" from Statesboro, Ga., embarked on a quirky experiment: For the duration of her eighth-grade year, she would follow the book's advice to the letter, spending a month on each chapter, to see if it would make her popular. You don't go rogue.Īmazingly, though, that's just what Maya Van Wagenen, 15, bravely did every day for a year while gathering research for her first book, Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek. "Freshmen, ROTC guys, preps, JV jocks, Asian nerds" - everyone has her place, as misfit Janis explains in Mean Girls. ![]() Anyone who's ever sat in a high school cafeteria knows that there's an order to the layout. ![]()
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