Every Girl's Guide to Boys (11 page)

About the author

At
23, Marla is still baffled by boys’ behavior. But that doesn’t mean she’ll give
up trying to understand. She doesn’t need much to be happy—just quiet
weekends with her family, people who let her think she’s funny even when she’s
not (which is most of the time), and friends who stay up all night with her
during intense, slightly-panicked writing sessions. She likes curling up with a
David Levithan novel, typing the very last word to a story, and baby-sitting
her two little boys, Macu and Cisco. She thinks being
Candy
Magazine’s Assistant Lifestyle Editor is pretty cool, and loves the fact that
she gets paid to watch chick flicks, listen to her fave bands, and stalk her
celebrity crushes.