In today's list of awesome authors we have Sarah J. Maas, Lauren Kate, and Yvonne Wood!
Sarah J. Maas: I was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where I grew up
roving the halls of the Natural History Museum, wandering through the Temple of
Dendur the Met, and spending summer evenings at the Metropolitan Opera House,
watching the American Ballet Theatre perform. When my parents weren’t ushering
me from one New York City delight to the next, they were reading me fairy-tales
and folklore from around the world. From “Cinderella” to “Vasilisa The Brave,” from
“East Of the Sun, West of the Moon” to “The Terrible Nung Gwama,” my parents
left no legend untold. Honestly, it’s not all that surprising that I now make
my living writing mostly fairy-tale retellings about kick-butt heroines. I’ve been a “teller of tall tales” since I can remember (I think my
parents preferred that term to “extravagant and unnervingly good liar”), and
began writing my first (serious) novel at sixteen. It started out as this
re-imagining of “Cinderella” (basically: what if Cinderella was an assassin,
and went to the ball not to dance with the prince, but to kill him?) and
quickly became Throne of Glass, a sprawling epic fantasy series with
very few Cinderella elements. In April 2002, I began posting the first chapters of the very rough
draft (then called Queen of Glass) on FictionPress.com, a wonderful website for
aspiring authors. After getting some super-positive responses, I posted some
more. Six years later, Throne of Glass had become the
most-reviewed story on FictionPress, garnering thousands of readers from around
the world. Their enthusiasm
Lauren Kate: Lauren Kate grew up in Dallas, went to
school in Atlanta, and started writing in New York. She is the author of
Fallen and The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove. She lives in Laurel Canyon with
her husband and hopes to work in a restaurant kitchen, get a dog, and learn how
to surf.
Yvonne Woon: Our intrepid heroine is shy, freckled, feline; with
thick eyeliner and long, black hair. She grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts,
in an old stone colonial flanked by woods, where she first developed a penchant
for the macabre. It began with the sudden disappearance of her cat, followed by
the next cat, and the cat after that. She has been writing mysteries ever
since. Yvonne now lives in New York, where she went to college and graduate
school. She holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University, which she mostly uses to
concoct plots. She thinks of her best idea after dinner, often just before she
goes to bed. Her many interest include New England, etymologies, chemistry, and
various supernatural phenomena. Her favorite punctuation mark is the !
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