Nick Hornby to enter the YA arena.
From the Book Standard:
The book is about Sam, a boy on the edge of adulthood who deals with a "life-altering teenage moment," falls hard for a pretty girl, and talks to his idol, champion skater Tony Hawk, or at least, talks to a poster of him, the publisher said in a release today.
Not much of a leap, really. I've always seen High Fidelity and About a Boy as cross-overs.