This is a tri-fold pamphlet designed for older teens to get them interested in reading some of Blake Nelson\’s books. It was done in black and white to increase its usability/affordability in a library and was originally designed on Microsoft Publisher.

1. S OME STUFF ABOUT DESTROY ALL CARS
B LAKE NELSON
Coming out May 2009
 grew up in Portland, Oregon &
this is where most of his stories
take place BLAKE SAID: It is basically this sev-
enteen year old GOING OFF on the
Washington general idiocy of the world. It KILLS
and I can't wait to unleash it on the
Ocean
Portland
world.
Pacific
Idaho
Oregon
www.blakenelsonbooks.com
high school,
California Nevada
When you were a kid, what did
bands...and
 in his teens and twenties he
played in some bands
you want to be when you grew trying to
up?A musician or a writer.
 his first writing job was at De-
tails magazine, writing pieces Writer won. figure it all

about the slacker lifestyle
his first novel GIRL was rejected What inspires you?
out
40 times and then….in the early
90s Sassy Magazine began Other good books. Movies.
publishing excerpts, this gener- Music. My friends who do in-
ated a lot of buzz and led to the teresting things... I also love to
publication of GIRL in 1994
go see bands.
 So far 2 movies have been made
based on his books: GIRL &
PARANOID PARK
this pamphlet was designed by
 currently lives in Portland, OR Audra M. Smith in spring 2009
but he has lived in NYC

2. books by blake nelson paranoid park
A 16-year- old skater visits an
underground skate park where
he meets a street kid. While
train-hopping, a transit cop at-
Suburban and straight-A high school stu- tacks them and in the confusion,
dent Andrea Marr is introduced to the
the cop is killed. Through the
downtown underground music scene in
Portland, OR. Follow her adventures It’s senior year and overachiever guilt and fear, the boy tries to
going to shows, shopping in thrift stores, Max Caldwell is the boy who has figure out a way to go on living
dating and falling in love with almost - everything, but does he even want his normal life.
rock star Todd Sparrow.
it? He spends this last year of high
school breaking up with his girl-
ROCK
friend, making and losing friends,
STAR
going to parties, meeting girls and
SUPERSTAR trying to figure it all out.
Pete cares A LOT about music and
he’s a really good bassist. He joins a and...
Also….
band with the Carlisle brothers even
though he knows they’re amateurs. THEY CAME prom anonymous
But playing at shows is exciting and FROM BELOW three very different
their band, The Tiny Masters of friends and one prom
Today, start to make it big. Is Pete it’s like science fiction about aliens
ready to be a rock star? meets a little environmentalism