The name Gallagher comes from Gallagher-Iba Arena at my alma mater, Oklahoma State University.

You are very observant. But sort of mistaken. Let me explain.

Cammie writes each book (or each book so far) during the school break that follows the semester in question.

So Cammie, the narrator, is telling the story of LYKY during winter break–in other words during late December or early January. So when she says “I’ll be sixteen next month” she’s talking about turning sixteen in late January or early February (to tell you the truth, I’ve never really narrowed it down.)

So she actually turned 16 during the course of CMH. Initially, there was a scene in there about her birthday, but it didn’t serve any purpose, so it got cut somewhere along the line.

Sometimes books are misprinted, but don’t worry. If you get a misprinted book you simply have to return it to the store where you bought it. Most stores will happily exchange damaged merchandise for a new copy at no charge.

The decision to make the uniforms a different color on each book doesn’t have anything to do with the books or the school. Actually, it’s a little trick that hopefully helps the “look” of the book walk the line between making people recognize it as a Gallagher Girls book but also keeps people from thinking that they’ve read that one before.

So, in other words, ideally people will think: hey, I know those books. But they will also say “my books are blue and green–this red one must be new!”

It’s a thin, thin line and a tough one to walk–that’s why it takes so long to get the GG covers right sometimes.

There is no such thing as a universal international publication date, but we do our best to keep a list of all of the countries where we have sold publishing rights. Please check this list to see if a publisher in your country has purchased rights. Then you’ll need to check with a local bookstore or the local publisher to determine what the publication date might be. For more information on how international publishing works, please read this post.

Actually, it’s all different girls and I don’t know any of their names–sorry. My awesome publisher, Disney-Hyperion, has tried to get the same model for each shoot but so far that hasn’t been possible. For the GG3 cover they actually did some fancy stuff with Photoshop so that the girl’s face is the same from LYKY, but each book technically shows a different model.

I was watching the TV show ALIAS one night and misunderstood what was happening in the episode. I thought it was about a girl at a spy school, but it wasn’t. It didn’t matter that I was wrong, though, because by that point I couldn’t stop wondering what I spy school would be like, and I knew I had to write that story.

GG1: I’D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU, BUT THEN I’D HAVE TO KILL YOU
GG2: CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO SPY
GG3: DON’T JUDGE A GIRL BY HER COVER
GG4: ONLY THE GOOD SPY YOUNG
GG5: OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF TIME
GG6: UNITED WE SPY

Possibly someday, but there are no firm plans to do that at this time.

Six. United We Spy was the final book in the Gallagher Girls series.