![]() ![]() The busy mother of two and author of 37 novels holds regular writing workshops in her Culver City home. ![]() Block is also particularly adored by readers because of her dedication to mentoring other writers, many of whom originally came to her as fans. Over the years, members of Block’s passionate and multi-generational fanbase have come to idolize the author and essentially recast her as the fairy godmother to contemporary YA. The “Dangerous Angels” series chronicles the adventures of a charmingly naive teenage girl in 1980s Los Angeles vividly re-imagined by Block. The story of Weetzie Bat is nothing short of a punk rock fairy tale. “Weetzie Bat,” originally published in 1989 by seminal young-adult author Francesca Lia Block, is the first book of what later became the widely beloved “Dangerous Angels” series. Her name was Weetzie Bat and I became obsessed with her. She was a magical 16-year-old who named her clothes, worshiped rock music, and loved the world so openly that when the darkness came, it consumed her. When I was 14, I encountered a fictional character that changed my life. ![]()
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