I’m continually amazed at the idea that I have a checking account and a mortgage. In my mind, I am still 13-years-old, running laps on the athletic field, wearing this really baggy white gymsuit. I think I write for young-adults because I never quite got over being one. I'm happy that the book is so popular, and if you are reading this bio because the book was assigned for school, I'm happy about that too.

I thought this was a really important topic, as 27 percent of teenage girls surveyed have been hit by a boyfriend.

I based the book on my experiences interning with the State Attorney's Office and volunteering with battered women. Breathing Underwater deals with the serious and all-too-common problem of dating violence. It was law school that probably helped with my first novel. I studied opera in college (I'm a coloratura - the really loud, high-pitched sopranos.) and then went to law school. By high school, I'd made some friends and gotten involved in various 'gifted and talented' performing arts programs. I had a really hard time making friends, so I spent a lot of time reading and writing then. My family moved to Miami when I was in middle school. Zeiser, told my mother, 'Alexandra marches to her own drummer.' I don't think that was supposed to be a compliment. When the other kids were on Book 20, I was on Book 1! My teacher, Mrs. But I compensated for this early proficiency by absolutely refusing to read the programmed readers required by the school system - workbooks where you read the story, then answered the questions. And when I was eight, I got my first rejection letter from Highlights Magazine. When I was five, my mom said I should be an author. This probably influenced my interest in witches.

I grew up on a street called Salem Court.

Love Jacaranda is out in the world! Hope you'll check out this fun wish-fulfillment romance! Isolated as they are, what could they learn from the journal of a girl who's been missing for seventeen years? Towering: While Rachel has been imprisoned in a tower by 'Mama' for years, Wyatt's mother just shipped him off to live with a family acquaintance. Kiss in Time is a Junior Library Guild Selection. But teens aren't good listeners-and now they're going to have to find their way together. Jack, who's touring modern Europe on an educational trip, has been ordered to stay with his group. Kiss in Time: Princess Talia, whose family rules a tiny European kingdom in the 1700s, has been warned to keep away from spindles. This mashup of twisted fairy tales will keep readers hopping! Alex Flinn, New York Times #1 bestseller, is back with more magical modernized fairy tales! These three present-day takes on classic stories appear in one collection for the first time.Ĭloaked: Johnny spends his days relaxing in South Beach-until the visiting Princess Victoriana sends him on a quest to find a frog prince in the Florida Keys.

A Kiss in Time by Alex Flinn