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Deserae

As one of your biggest fans since The Clique was born, through using my best impression of Massie Block, puh-lease write another Clique book!
Perhaps when everyone is reunited again, perhaps recently graduated from college, or high school… as long as everyone is reunited again because I’m DYING to know how they turn out in the future.
If this isn’t possible maybe you can email me (enaricoque@gmail.com) what you think would happen to the characters (I hope this isn’t too much to ask).

I heart you.

LISI!
You can’t stop now! I think I can say for all of the girls reading this and myself that you and the clique are an iconic part of our upbringing. I remember bouncing in by ballet flats and lipgloss in middle school at the checkout line in target getting my hands on your next argyle book. My mom made a rule that I couldn’t start reading until we got home or I’d just be silent in the minivan and she’d have no one to talk to. Your descriptive writing style shaped mine in the way Shakespeare or the classics never will. Which I think is pretty cool.
I think the hardest thing is that I’m not a middle school girl in the Midwest anymore. I’m twenty and living in Sydney, Australia to study for a bit. PS thank you for naming the boys in Alphas after these cities or else I would never remember them. I think that’s why we’re feeling this weird disconnect. The world feels very different than it did when it was 2007. I’m not worried about fitting in with people cooler than me (hello, I already know I’m Massie and everyone secretly wants to be like me… even when that’s not true that’s what I tell myself) and crushes feel different. Like I acknowledge that boys are people instead of just objects for crushes and jokes, and looks are the easiest of the requirements to meet. Heartbreak feels different now too. I feel like the brand obsession that the clique critiques isn’t gone, but with the hipster movement we just don’t covet the killer labels the same way. I have a different story to tell now than I did then and I think you do too. Somehow I feel like less glaring eyes are on me than when I was in middle school (maybe like your blog?) and so I do more experimenting, I’m bolder and I’m nicer to people because I know what it’s like to feel weird. Maybe you could tell us a little bit more about what it feels like to be changing or in a changing relationship maybe with your reader/fan base or your craft of writing or your romantic or platonic relationships?
I don’t know, but you’re incredible and so Lisi, which is what I love. So keep being you, but be the now you, not the 2007 you.
Also hmu if you have any outlining workshops because I still don’t get it and I keep failing at writing lol.