History
The book-packaging subdivision of Alloy Online, which focuses on the teen market, conceived the stories for its novel series, and is responsible for hiring writers and editing the novels they produced. They approached Lisi Harrison, who was working as a writer for MTV, about producing a series of young adult novels. She said of this proposal, "Always being a closeted wannabe author - I jumped at the opportunity. I loved the idea." Lisi actually wrote this book as a "joke," she said, as she even named OCD after a disorder that some people had. She created this series to show everyone that popular people aren't perfect and that everyone has flaws. Alloy's involvement in the process of writing varies from series to series; Harrison said that in her case they functioned as a sounding board, but otherwise, "they left me to my own devices. It's very much my book." The end result was the first novel in the series, The Clique, which was published in May 2004 by Little, Brown and Company.
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