Sex and The City Goes High School Retro

Ugh, after leaving high school one way or another, you relive it every day for the rest of your life. At work, the ever present suck ups were first class apple polishing brown nosers as students, the smart kids wearing geeky glasses and corduroy nerd smurfs are the ones everybody reads about later amid the consternated who knew diatribes. Bullies become bosses and wimp whining is about somebody who missed saying a daily hello. Now, Candace Bushnell wants to give obsessions with zit facial placements on today's cool kidz, raging teenage hormones and the beginnings of a designer shoe fetish as a prequel with Sex and the City-like style.

As a TV show, it was an amusing look at a very vanilla group of four women with sex on the brain just inside the outer edges of chi chi Manhattan's "it" circle. It's coming with a real grabber of a title - The Carrie Diaries. Wow, just imagining reading about her first Mr. Big for some hapless 14 year old could spark some prickly discussions as her dénouement was in a family rec room after smoking a joint with an 11th grader.

Bushnell, 49, has signed a deal for the books, which will be titled The
Carrie Dairies, with the children's division at HarperCollins. The
publisher said they would take "readers back to Carrie Bradshaw's formative years in high school, giving an inside look at Carrie's friendships, romances and how she realised her dream of becoming a writer".

HarperCollins promises the books will be on the Young Adult shelf in 2010 because
the goal is a crossover audience - teens and boomer matrons - known as their moms. Yep, that's a demographic female grouping with a lot in common.