Lauren Conrad: Another Bestseller

She struck gold with her debut novel “LA Candy,” and now Lauren Conrad has done it again with her new release “Sweet Little Lies.”

The “Hills” hottie’s second book has topped the New York Times bestseller list, and she couldn’t be happier about it.

Lauren explained, “It’s so gratifying for my second book to be so successful and it was so fun to write! The characters were already developed so I really enjoyed the process so much more this time around. All the characters have become like my friends now.”

And as it turns out, being an author is much more laid back than her Reality TV gig. “I just sat in bed writing and it was the best process. Who gets to work from home in their PJ’s?”

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Congratulations, Lauren!

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Lauren Conrad scores movie deal for L.A. Candy

Good news for those who were less than enthused about Kristin Cavallari's debut on The Hills last night: Lauren Conrad is making her way back to the screen. Well, sort of. Conrad's debut novel, "L.A. Candy" is being made into a movie.

Temple Hill Entertainment has acquired the screen rights to the book, and Conrad herself will serve as executive producer, Variety reports.

The novel, which has been on the New York Times' bestseller lists for 14 weeks, seems to mimic Conrad's own experience in L.A.: A 19-year old girl moves to Hollywood, becomes the star of a reality series and subsequently has to learn how to deal with the flash of the paparazzi's bulbs.

Conrad is slated to write two more books for the series.

"Lauren, who became an icon in that reality-show world, came to us with a structure of how to tell the story in an interesting fashion that was separate and apart from the book," Temple Hill's Mary Bowen said. "We loved her take. Her book is an honest portrayal of what it must be like to set out to be normal, then sign on to become famous and eventually realize: wow, this isn't at all what I'd planned for myself."

Hmm ... sounds familiar. What do you think? Will the movie show us the behind-the-scenes juice we never got to see during Conrad's stint on The Hills, or will it just be more of the same of what we got on MTV?

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