Wayland Student Press Network 4/10/12: DeHoratius publishes Follow Your Fates book series. Fate is in classics teacher Ed DeHoratius’ favor with the recent release of his own book series titled Follow Your Fates. The Follow Your Fates series is geared to ages eight and up, and works with the theme of creating your own adventure in classic ancient Greek and Roman literature. In this creative format, the reader is the main character, and has the freedom to make his or her own choices throughout the book, including choosing an ending. Each decision the reader makes directs them on a path for the rest of the book.

Wayland Town Crier 12/5/11: Massachusetts teen releases second edition of 'Brain Snacks'. Teens sometimes need a bit of guidance, and oftentimes that guidance needs to come from someone other than their parents, teachers and coaches. It needs to come from someone who really gets it, someone who’s cool and collected and who doesn’t condescend. In Alex Southmayd’s second edition of “Brain Snacks for Teens on the Go!: 50 Smart Ideas to Turbo-Charge Your Life,” the young author provides that guidance. He offers a simple “how-to” on making the most of one’s teen years. As in any personal development book, establishing the author’s credibility poses a challenge. After all, Alex Southmayd, a resident of Wayland and Weston, is not a professor at Harvard University, and he is not a psychologist – he’s just a freshman at Amherst College.

Wayland Patch 9/28/11: Wayland Author Mark Peter Hughes Visits Goodnow Library. Young fans of Mark Peter Hughes, along with their parents, attended a special visit by the Wayland writer to Sudbury's Goodnow Library on Monday. Hughes is the author of three books for young adults. The second of these, "Lemonade Mouth," chronicles the lives of five misunderstood high school freshmen who form a band that takes their school by storm. Hughes read an excerpt from the book and answered questions about what it was like to have the book made into a popular Disney TV movie, which premiered in Wayland in April.

Boston Globe 4/22/11: Wayland author drinks in success of ‘Lemonade Mouth’. When he was in high school, Mark Peter Hughes finished in the top four of a young adult fiction contest whose winner would get a book published. Though he did not win, he was invited to submit another draft. He never followed up. Two decades later he entered another contest for young adult fiction. Of more than 500 entries, his made the top five, and again he was invited to keep working on it. Older and wiser, he seized the moment. He turned a backyard shed into a writing room, and in 2005 Random House published his first novel, "I Am the Wallpaper." In 2007 it published his second, "Lemonade Mouth." That second book is now a movie airing on the Disney Channel, and Hughes, 44, no longer toils in obscurity. Touted as the next "High School Musical," "Lemonade Mouth" — the story of five high school misfits who meet in detention, form a band, and challenge their cliquey classmates — premiered last Friday as the most-watched original cable movie of 2011. It airs again tonight.

Wayland Town Crier 4/21/11: Lemonade Mouth: Wayland's Own Movie Premiere. "It was an amazing moment, to see people pretending to be characters that I made up, mostly in Starbucks, in a movie being made from my book." Wayland author Mark Peter Hughes speaks of watching a scene being filmed for the new Disney Channel movie “Lemonade Mouth,” based on his widely popular book. This sentiment concluded a witty, anecdotal retelling of visiting the set of the movie during his talk on Friday night, which was part of the “Lemonade Mouth” movie premiere in Wayland.

Wayland Patch 4/18/11:  A Slice of Hollywood comes to Wayland for "Lemonade Mouth".   “It was an amazing moment, to see people pretending to be characters that I made up, mostly in Starbuck's, in a movie being made from my book,” said author Mark Peter Hughes.  Hughes, from Wayland, was speaking of watching a scene as it was filmed for the new Disney Channel movie, “Lemonade Mouth,” based on his widely popular book.

Wayland Town Crier 4/3/11: Film: Wayland author's 'Lemonade Mouth' opens wide. How sweet it was for Mark Peter Hughes as the Wayland author watched the film version of his book "Lemonade Mouth" for the first time at Showcase Cinemas De Lux at Legacy Place in Dedham last month. Hughes will be able to savor the experience again on April 15 when the movie is shown on the Disney Channel at 8 p.m. For an added bonus, he'll be watching the movie at Wayland Middle School, which is holding a special screening.