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About Me

CONTACT INFORMATION

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For questions on rights, please contact my agent: 
      Andrea Somberg 
      Harvey Klinger, Inc. 
      300 West 55th Street, Suite 11V 
      New York, NY 10019

MY LIFE (abridged version)

I wrote my first story in first grade. The narrator was an ice-cream cone in the process of being eaten. In fourth grade, I wrote my first book, about a girl who gets shipwrecked on a desert island with her faithful and heroic dog (a rip-off of both The Black Stallion and all the Lassie movies, very impressive).

After selling my first story (Temple of Stone) while in high school, I gave in to my mother’s importuning to be practical and majored in biology at  Brooklyn College. I then went to Columbia Law School and practiced law for almost two years at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, a large law firm in New York City. I kept writing and submitting in my spare time, and finally, a mere 15 years after my first short story acceptance, I sold my first novel to Greenwillow Books (HarperCollins).

I live in Silver Spring, Maryland (right outside of Washington, D.C.) with my husband and four children.

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Or read some of my favorite interviews/blog posts:

A Few of My Favorite Things

Interview at The Enchanted Inkpot

Ten Things I’ve Done That You (Probably) Haven’t

Writing While Parenting

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