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" If you are in the market for a good read, pick up a copy of Elizabeth Eulberg&amp;#039;s The Lonely Hearts Club. The novel is about a girl who decides not to fall in love! We caught up with Eulberg to talk about her first novel and what made her start writing. CosmoGirl: Tell us what The Lonely Hearts Club is about. Elizabeth Eulberg: The book is about Penny Lane Bloom, who gets her heart broken by a childhood crush. He breaks her heart and she realizes how many times she winds up heartbroken by boys. She makes a vow not to feel this way ever again and starts a club for herself to stop dating boys during high school. Her friends find out about her plan and realize they could all learn something about themselves by not dating for a while, so they decide to join Penny. What at first turns into an anti-guy movement ends up being a friendship movement. CG: What made you want to write a story like this? EE: I was out one night with my friend, and she&amp;#039;s the kind of girl who only calls you when her boyfriend isn&amp;#039;t around. All these boys were giving her attention while we were out, so I started throwing myself a little pity party. It then dawned on me that I have a great group of friends and I should enjoy their company while I have it. The rest, like dating, will all fall into place after that. CG: What kind of research did you do for this story? Did you try to live in Penny&amp;#039;s shoes and not date? EE: Unfortunately for me, my dating life has not been very successful so a lot of the stories in the book are actually from my own life! So in terms of research, I guess you could say that part was pretty much handled by my own experiences. CG: Since this is your first novel, what was the writing process like? EE: I made a lot of mistakes with my first book. I had Penny&amp;#039;s name first and when I sat down to write I realized I didn&amp;#039;t have any other details! I got around to getting to know the characters and now my writing routine is that I have to know exactly what I am going to write before I sit down. I&amp;#039;ll think about what I am going to write all week and then when the weekend comes, I already have my outline and notes ready. CG: What is your cure for writer&amp;#039;s block? EE: I have to listen to music to write. For this book, I only listened to the Beatles. Now I am working on my second book and I am trying to listen to something different, which is really weird! For more information on The Lonely Hearts Club, visit ElizabethEulberg.com. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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