Alix Kates Shulman

Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia content company, today announced its partnership with Girls Write Now (GWN), New York City’s premier creative writing and mentoring organization for at-risk and underserved high-school girls. As part of this partnership, Open Road will sponsor CHAPTERS 2012, a public reading series showcasing a fresh season of talent at GWN with keynote speeches from women who inspire the teens, including two Open Road authors: the bestselling co-author of The Daring Book for Girls, Andrea J. Buchanan, whose upcoming novel Gift will be published this month; and Alix Kates Shulman, whose library of eight titles, including Memoirs of an Ex–Prom Queen and her new collection The Marriage Agreement and Other Essays, will be published as ebooks in May, on the cusp of her eightieth birthday.