Mary Hogan 

Mary is a US author whose primary agent is Laura Langlie.  She writes teenage fiction and her first novel THE SERIOUS KISS will be published in January 2005 by Simon & Schuster in the UK, by HarperCollins in the US, and in Germany by Rowohlt.

The book is narrated by the fourteen-year-old Libby Madrigal who decides, with her best friend Nadine, that she simply must, by her 15th birthday, experience one 'totally real, meaningful, soulful, poetic, inspiring, knee-buckling, love-filled, journal worthy, insomnia producing, appetite reducing, mind blowing, life changing, unforgettable, undeniable - serious kiss'.  But Libby's family is crumbling around her and they are soon forced to move from Chatsworth, California to Barstow, Nevada, leaving behind Nadine and the boy Libby had in mind for that first serious kiss.  Worse still, Libby's family moves into a trailer park retirement community where her estranged grandmother lives.  What are Libby's chances now of finding anyone of even an appropriate age for that first serious kiss?

Mary is also working on the first in a four book series - SUSANNA DOES SUMMER.  15 year old Susanna Barringer thought she was the luckiest girl in the world.  What are the odds that a native New Yorker, public school sophomore, apparently-incurable virgin - more of a Roseanne than a Reese - would land a coveted summer internship at SCENE magazine?  Must be a gazillion to one.  At least.

But there she is, basking in the glam world of a celebrity magazine...until reality sets in.  'Intern' appears to be a synonym for 'Messenger'; Nell Wickham, the Editor-in-Chief (a British import, of course!) is a neurotic nutcase; and the snobby SCENE editors treat her like she's a high-schooler who knows nothing - which of course she is, but do they have to treat her that way?

SUSANNA DOES SUMMER follows Susanna's adventures as she attempts to carve out a mini-career as a celebrity reporter.  When she meets mega-star Randall Sanders she's surely on her way - but after disgracing herself on set she has to find another way of getting the story before summer, and her internship, are over.  Further books in the SUSANNA series have been commissioned.  Simon & Schuster have also acquired two stand alone novels, PERFECT GIRL and PRETTY FACE.

Mary Hogan is a journalist and former editor of TEEN magazine.  She also writes for television and radio.