Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar (born June 27, 1970) is an American author best known for the young adult Gossip Girl series of novels. Read full biography of Cecily von Ziegesar →
Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each... →
My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time... →
I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.
I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid... →
I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU;... →
'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the... →
I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?
The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.
I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to... →
I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a... →
My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my... →
Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.
I'm just a crazy person. I mean, I really didn't have any trouble coming up with weird ways for people to die. I think I'm just very... →
Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar (born June 27, 1970) is an American author best known for the young adult Gossip Girl series of novels.