1980s movie star Molly Ringwald scored a book deal with HarperCollins with a March 2009 deadline.

Bucking the trend of celebrity memoirs, the star of Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club is writing a novel about living as a 40-year-old. In her personal life, Ringwald has maintained strong literary connections--she first married to French novelist Valery Lameignere and then Greek editor Panio Gianopoulos. She has written book reviews, as well.

The LA Times has an interview: "[The book is] not just about 40, but people who are of my generation, catching up and what that's like and how you have to reidentify yourself at that age in a culture that's pretty youth-driven. But it's fine actually! Leading up to 40 is much worse than being 40. The sort of tick-tock -- everything just seems so much weirder and scarier than it actually is."