Last year I was invited to contribute a short story with a paranormal them to an anthology from Leap Books titled SPIRITED. I was super excited, especially when I found out that some fantastic authors would be joining me.

Since my THE SEER has some amazing fans, I wanted to give them a new story with favorite characters Sabine and Dominic. So I wrote PHANTOM OF THE PROM; a ghost, prom, romance.

SPIRITED is out now online and in March a paperback comes out, too.

This book is split up in three different genres of stories: PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE. My story is in the PRESENT category. I thought it would be fun to share the titles and authors for each story:

SPIRITED paranormal Anthology, edited by Kat O'Shea

THE PAST

1. Strangeways vs. the Wraith by Judith Graves
2. The Senet Box by Jill Williamson
3. Stained by Mark Finnemore
4. Thread of the Past by Dawn Dalton

PRESENT
5. The Cold One by Candace Havens
6. Death becomes Her by Kitty Keswick
7. Oast House by Carmen Tudor
8. The New Girl by Maria V. Synder
9. Aftermath by Halli Dee Liburn
10.Phantom of the Prom by Linda Joy Singleton

FUTURE
11. Night Queen by John W. Otte
12. To Hell and Back by Shannon Delany
13. The Story of Late by Heather Kenealy

Hope you check out our stories!

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Backstory: About 10 years ago I was inspired by my childhood memories of a visit to Peterson's Rock Garden in Bend Oregon, loving the glittering rock art, and started writing a book that would go through many title changes to become MY CASTLE ROCKS. For research, I visited the real rock garden and fell in love with the tiny bridges, buildings and glittery world in quartz, obsidian and other dazzling rocks. I especially loved the pink quartz.

Lately ROCKS has been on my mind because I spent the last 2 months revising the manuscript I started so long ago. I had to put it aside while I wrote THE SEER, DEAD GIRL and upcoming BURIED. I had some helpful comments from a few editors who saw the original version and I finally had time to make these rewrites. When I sent it to my agent Weds, she wrote back that she fell in love with it and "it was amazing."

So I was thinking of this book and rock art and this morning I woke up early with a startling memory. Hadn't my husband given me a pink quartz chunk for a gift? I could see it in my mind but couldn't remember every having it in this house. We moved here in 2005 and other things had been lost in the move--had this been lost? Put away in a box? I couldn't remember...

So I looked in closets and shelves. Nothing. So I looked in the past, by pulling out my journals and skipping to holidays where I would have received a gift. Nothing. So I called my husband, and he reminded me that he and my daughter HAD taken a trip to Oregon and searched for a pink quartz for me but ultimately didn't buy one. Still, he'd told me about this so vividly that I could see the rock in my mind. It's the trick memory can play, altering facts so that unreality seems real.

Mystery solved...but I have a feeling I may get that pink quartz someday (g).

PS -- My husband and I have an agreement that when ROCKS sells, he'll build me a wishing well out of real rocks from our property, like the rock art my story is based on.

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When I was a kid, I was wild about everything dog. I collected photos, had a dog-cat club with my best friend, drew dog pictures, and made list of dog names. For a short time I even wanted to be a vet, until I realized needles and blood was involved. So I wrote animal stories instead, like the classic: Termite the Terrible Puppy.

So this morning I'm working on rewrites and watching the news (with my dog Lacey curled up beside me) and on the news they have a poll to name a dog. I never click over to news sites but I couldn't resist this. The puppy was so cute, too, all small and curly and white. Some of the names to choose from were Snowball, Bear, Coco, Tater, Dizzy, Sunny, Parker, Rocky, Miles, Cosmo, Coltrane, Oats, etc. I had to vote of course. I was leaning toward Coco until I read it again and saw it was a male puppy. So I picked Cosmo then checked the %'s and found that it wasn't the most popular name. Can you guess which name is leading with 17%?

It's up at www.gooddaysacramento.com

Linda...very skilled at procastinating instead of working on my book.

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Doesn't it feel great when you're talking about music-tv-movies-books to someone and find out you have the same taste. "I love it too" -- four words that connect us with each other. Having something common is a unversal Superglue that unites people.

Not having anything in common can be interesting, too, and sometimes you can convince a friend to try something new. Or by liking something unique, you feel unique, too.

So I thought I'd share my list of things I like that are POPULAR or SHOULD BE.

THINGS I LIKE THAT ARE TRENDING IN POPULARITY:

BOOKS MADE INTO MOVIES:
Girl with Dragon Tattoo (Swedish translated to English) plus upcoming movie
The Help
HUGO

TV SHOWS
Terra Nova (not sure if this is popular or not!)
Glee
Two Broke Girls
Survivor, Amazing Race, Project Runway

MEGA-STAR BOOKS
Harry Popular...I mean...Potter
Twilight -- yeah, I liked them which is less popular now than last year
Hunger Games-soon to be as popular as Twilight once the movie comes out

BOOKS THAT ARE GAINING POPULARITY AND IF THEY AREN'T THEY SHOULD BE:
Ruby Red
Emerald Atlas
Liesl and Po
Drizzle
The Future of Us
Terrier trilogy by Tamora Pierce

And a picture book called PIRATE NAP by Danna Smith which is so fun to read that kids will beg "Again!"

Under the topic of "chocolate"...I love chocolate which is always popular especially at holidays.

Cats. Writers and cats, we just understand each other.

Music -- I have an odd mx of popular (Katy & GaGa) & Coldplay) and vintage (Beach Boys, Abba) on my Pandora app.

And I love musicals -- already have tickets for my family to go to see WICKED in June -- with a great song called "Popular."

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A book, of course. But add a childhood story to the book and it becomes more than a book; it becomes a never-ending story (which was an amazing movie of the same title by the way...but I degress....)

The story of this Christmas-theme book begins when I was 13 years old. I was shy, unpopular, insecure and bursting with creativity that often came out in the inventive crafts and games my best friend and I created (but that's another story). When I couldn't hang out with my best friend Lori, I spent time with my other best friend: books. I loved reading so much and had discovered girl mystery books. My favorites were the Nancy Drew and Judy Bolton series (rivals in publishing, but best friends on my bookshelves). So I wrote two fan letters--the first went to Carolyn Keene care of Grosset & Dunlap. I never received a reply (ghosts can't write fan letters after all). So I wrote a letter to my other favorite author, Margaret Sutton, original creator and author of 38 Judy Bolton mystery novels. And Margaret wrote back.

I was SO thrilled to have a letter from my favorite author. I showed it off at school the next day and will never forget that thrill, especially when I get the opportunity to give the same thrill to a fan of my books. Well, my relationship with Margaret didn't end there. She recognized something in me, maybe passion for writing, and we kept sharing letters. I met her in person at my high school graduation party (just my family in the kitchen, with Margaret as the celebrity guest).

PHOTO: Linda (age 17) Margaret (age 71)


As adults Margaret and I kept in touch mostly through holiday cards but when she moved to Berkeley, just an hour away, I visited her. On one visit she gave me the address for a group of her fans who had started a newsletter, The Whispered Watchword. Meeting other Judy Bolton fans was amazing. Even more amazing, through serendipity, one of the other fans has been given the beginning chapters of a new Judy Bolton mystery by Margaret and told she could do whatever she wanted with it. She gave it to me.

Now to understand how HUGE this was, imagine your favorite series and how you felt when it ended. I'd read all 38 Judy Bolton mysteries many times and longed for more. Just one more mystery, I wished. And now I had the opportunity to make it happen. But I had no synopsis or outline to go by, only 3 chapters that ended dramatically with a ambulance siren. I knew these books so well, better than I knew my own writing style. And I was thrilled for the chance to finish this book. So I reread Judy's and studied the style. I typed like I was possessed, and in three weeks had finished the book which Margaret titled THE TALKING SNOWMAN.

Several months later, I met Margaret along with some of her fans in Pennsylvania at a Judy Bolton reunion. I showed Margaret the manuscript, and while she pointed out things that would need to be edited, she was very positive, even impressed that I came up with solutions to the mystery and also guessed much of what she had planned. Of course, I couldn't include her trademark "something that really happened to the author" so she took the manuscript from me and added this scene herself, making editing marks and returning it to me for completion. And years later, I self-published THE TALKING SNOWMAN, a new Judy Bolton mystery co-written by Margaret Sutton and me.

Fans were so thrilled to have this book that I didn't n

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And I had a surprise when I checked my Amazon ranking today. For a few days, DEAD GIRL IN LOVE, has been discounted to .99 cents on Kindle. And my ranking is down to 4 digits.

Of course some authors might not like this because it means less royalties but I'm more eager for readers to discover my series, and there are 3 books in the DEAD GIRL series.
http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Girl-in-Love-ebook/dp/B003BNZIR8/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1322502006&sr=1-1
So please spread the word to any Kindle readers you know and check out:
http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Girl-in-Love-ebook/dp/B003BNZIR8/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1322502006&sr=1-1

And keep on reading and sharing a love for books in all formats (g).

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I have over 5,000 books in my (mostly girl mystery) series collection.You can see some on my YouTube page under my full name.

I love to find current books, aside from vintage titles like Anne of Green Gables, Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden and Judy Bolton. Of course, Judy just came back in print in affordable paperback editions for a new generation of readers (and book collectors).

So here are some you may want to check out.

1. The JUDY BOLTON mysteries (38+ extras) are back in print from Applewood.
These are the mysteries that inspired my childhood love of books and my ambition to write.
Begin with THE VANISHING SHADOW and HAUNTED ATTIC: http://www.amazon.com/Vanishing-Shadow-Judy-Bolton-Mysteries/dp/1429090219/ref=sr_1_12_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1322238698&sr=1-12

I probably should add that I co-wrote another Judy, TALKING SNOWMAN, with Margaret Sutton before she died a decade ago, which I self-published for fans. (No Kindle on this one -- paper books only).

2. Not a series but a gem of a middle grade which I loved:
FROZEN IN TIME by Ali Sparkes. Time travel & mystery

3. TOMORROW GIRLS by Eva Gray
Paperback series for those who liked Hunger Games but hunger for younger with a cast of girl characters.
In this series, US is at war with Canada and girls are shipped off to a secret boarding school.

4. BUDDY FILES by Dori H. Butler
Very young chapter book series for starting kids/grandkids off with mystery.
For a short book, these are surprisingly well-crafted with building mystery & animal fun.

5. SAMMY KEYES -- This (Trixie Belden-like) series has gone from midgrade to young YA
with about a dozen titles. I consider it a must-have for any girl series collection, and I
buy them new. Love the "clue-styled" dust jacket.

6. EMERALD ATLAS by John Stephens. Sort of Harry Potter-Narnia mix. One of my
favorite books of 2011, and I'm very eager for the next one.

7. RUBY RED by Kierstin Gier-- this one is my favorite of 2011. Time travel with a clever, interesting heroine.

8. WHITE CAT/RED GLOVE by Holly Black - mysterious, magical, intriguing. Feels like a detective novel in style.

9.  POISON STUDY/MAGIC STUDY...everything by Maria V. Snyder 

10. THE AGENCY, historical girl spy mystery by Y.S. Lee

Linda Joy Singleton www.LindaJoySingleton.com & www.facebook.com/lindajoysingleton
#1. DEAD GIRL WALKING/DEAD GIRL DANCING/DEAD GIRL IN LOVE (Flux/) YALSA Popular Paperback
Ghosts Whisper to Psychic Sabine in THE SEER series (Flux)
THE SEER #6 MAGICIAN'S MUSE (Flux)
BURIED - A Goth Girl Mystery March 2012 (Flux)
Follow me : www.twitter.com/LindaJoySinglet

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Most days are very quiet for me since I live in a rural area and my husband works long hours. I'm lucky to have my daughter living close by and my weekends are usually busy. But most days it's me alone with the dogs and cats and computer. So I schedule in writer-friend time, usually every other week with my critique group and also lunches with two close writer friends. I keep in touch with most author friends via online but talking in person is fun and inspiring.

Last week I had lunch with Danna Smith and Linda Whalen to celebrate Danna's recent picture book sale. She had an agent in the past but is currently shopping for a brand new shiny agent who loves pic books. In the meantime, she sold this clever nonfiction book on her own. I'm really excited for her.

Sharing someone else's success is always so wonderful.

Every writer should surround themselves with supportive friends. Reach out from beyond the keyboard and invite some friends for lunch.

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DEAD GIRL WAKLING is only $2.51 for Nook e-readers. I'm really glad the price dropped from $9 and hope more readers check out this quirky para-romance about body-swapping and Dark-Lifers. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dead-girl-walking-linda-joy-singleton/1102302671?ean=9780738722085&itm=1&usri=linda%252bjoy%252bsingleton

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http://bookswarm.blogspot.com/2011/10/crossroads-presents-linda-joy-singleton.html

I'm traveling along in cyberspace on a blog tour for Halloween with lots of giveaway prizes!!

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Let's talk books!

I keep a list of every book I read with a rating so I can remember the ones I loved.

Picture books by friends who are really talented:

PIRATE NAP by Danna Smithhttp://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Nap-Colors-Danna-Smith/dp/0547575319/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1318636959&sr=1-1

HORNBOOKS AND INKWELLS by Verla Kayhttp://www.amazon.com/Hornbooks-Inkwells-Verla-Kay/dp/0399238700/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1318637053&sr=1-1

Books I've read that are amazing and earned 5 stars from me:

* MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN by Ransom Riggs
* SEA GLASS by Maria V. Snyder (love all her magical books!)
* THE GHOST AND THE GOTH by Stacey Kade
* VESPER by Jeff Sampson (amazing kick-ass heroine)
* DRIZZLE by Kathleen Van Cleeve
* RUBY RED by Kerstin Gier  (MY FAVORITE because I love time travel)
* EMERALD ATLAS by John Stephen (reminded me a little of Harry Potter)
* CLOSE TO FAMOUS by Joan Bauer (sweet, fun, yummy)

This is a start to some amazing reading ahead....check out these books NOW!

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For a year I've been working obsessively on a book that scared me to write. The idea came to me in Jan 09 when I wrote 4 pages. I kept thinking about this book-- science fiction YA trilogy. When I spoke of it to my friend Linda Whalen she told me that I sounded so excited like never before and she encouraged me to write this book. I felt in my heart I was meant to write this book.

Then my career slowed...after selling a SEER spinoff, Buried, Jan 09, I haven't sold anything else. Lots of hope just no actual contracts. I finished writing Buried then rewrote a middle grade mid-2010. Occasionally I'd pull out those 4 pages and fall in love with the SF YA idea all over again.

Finally nov. 2010 I decided to try nanowrimo challenge of writing a 200 page book in a month. For 2 weeks I wrote 8 pages a day and reached 100 pages on this SF YA. That's all I could do before stopping to go back and do what I've learned works for me - rewriting. I needed to figure out where the book was going before I could write any more. Slowly the book took shape. I finished Part 1 with a shocking murder. Part 2 was much harder since my heroine moved in with a new family and lots of drama. Part 3 sent my heroine somewhere exiting with more risks.

I had to stop writing for 2 weeks in April to write a story about Sabine from The Seer for an anthology called SPIRITED due out soon. But then I wrote like crazy and finished with 385 pages in July. My agent suggested cutting and the next 2 months were crazy editing that tightened the book to 352 pages.

So it's been over 2 1/2 years with no new sales but because of that dry spell I've had time and emotional energy to complete a book I'm proud of. My agent loves it, too. And editors are seeing it now.

Other things are happening.

* Buried comes out in March.
* Spirited anthology comes out soon in ebook form then in paperback in March.
* 9 out of print books (Regeneration and My Sister the Ghost) are being reprinted in French Canadian.
* I'm part of a blog tour called Crossroads in October.

And now I'm starting to plan the 2nd book in my trilogy.

Things are definitely looking up. And I can't wait to see what happens next!!

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Random Things in my Life:

MY GUILTY PLEASURE.....Big Brother. Anyone else obsessed with this show?

AUDIO BOOKS....Just finished listening to MATCHED in my car -- great book.
                                Now listening to THE HELP, and afterwards plan to see the movie.

PETS....My dog Lacey had surgery last month for a cancerous lump on her back.
              It's gone now and she's great. I took her to the groomer today. She's little and always look so cute after a grooming.

BIRTHDAY....My little girl (all grown up!) has a birthday this week. I bought a gift for her at a Pear Festival.

REWRITING.....Since finishing a 90K science fiction/midgrade in July, I've been working on revisions. Over halfway done.


 

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 Last Thursday I flew to LA for the 45 SCBWI LA Conference. This was my 20th year -- and it was wonderful. I've made so many friends through this organization and there wasn't enough time even in 5 days to talk to everyone. I often stayed in the lobby where I could talk to more people. I roomed with Verla Kay who was a speaker at the event for the first time and she was soooo excited. Her Blue Board (www.verlakay.com message board) is so popular that she met many people who love to go there for writing information. Her talk on social media was great, too, and she was kind enough to use my book trailers for DEAD GIRL WALKING and DON't DIE DRAGONFLY as examples of hiring teens to create promotional book trailers.

I was lucky to talk to my agent a lot, too. She's eager to get my work-in-progress (midgrade science fiction) so I really should be doing revisions than blogging...but blogging is fun and part of my job, too.

For the Saturday pajama party, I wore a Tinkerbelle pj set and danced do a great band with a huge crowd of kid-writers-gone-wild. I was glad when the Princess & Pea costume -- complete with a bed and stuffed legs-- won first place in costume contest.

Judy Blume was a surprise speaker -- replacing John Green who had sudden gall bladder surgery. For the first time ever, instead of the speaker talking from the podium, chairs were brought out Oprah-style and Lin Oliver interviewed Judy as if they were talking in a cozy living room. Judy is gorgeous, by the way, rocking age 70+ like a diva.

So I had a great time and next year I'll do it all over again. Hope to see you there.

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I'm going to SCBWI LA next week and rooming with my good picture-book friend Verla Kay.
The theme this year is pajama party so I bought some cute Disney PJ's -- can you guess
which Disney character I choose? Magical and girly with some attitude.

The biggest news is that I finished the first draft of my BIG project (futuristic YA mystery).
The book came to 385 pages and while I'm rewriting I'm cutting so it's not that long.
While I won't tell the title of my book (too often I've put that out there and someone used it first)
I'll say the theme is identity and survival with a bit of saving the world, too. Romance, of course,
and I love the moment when my characters meet. Lots of twists and secrets and life/death choices.

I just finished reading an adult-paranormal-romance by a favorite mystery author, Jan Burke,
that's titled THE MESSENGER; love how the hero talks to dying people and the heroine sees ghosts.
Excellent book!

What are you reading and/or writing? 

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What do children's writers do for fun at a retreat?

Write BADLY ... on purpose.

I've been in Lake Tahoe for 2 days with Bitsy Kemper (author of 4 picture books) and Lori Mortensen (who has a great pb coming out from Harper called CINDY MOO). We've walked, talked, critiqued each other and sat around working at our laptops.

But tonight we decided to play a writing game where one person starts a story then passes it over for the next person and so on, until the story has an ending. We wrote these in 15-30 minutes.

We decided to write the WORST EVER PB's. And we did!

You can read them here: http://www.facebook.com/notes/linda-joy-singleton/writers-writing-bad-on-purpose/10150222982092070

Enjoy!

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A zombie is a body that walks and breaths but lacks the mind and soul of the person who used to inhabit the body.

I looked directly into the face of a zombie yesterday, and it was chilling. Mostly, it was sad.

Because the zombie used to be my sister.

My 48 year old sister is mentally ill and there's no hint of the person she used to be inside her body.
She refuses to stay in one place, obsessed with cigarettes, and has recently become homeless.
There's no reasoning with her because she only hears the voices in her head.
She rants, cries, manipulates and harasses my parents.

The only mental facility in Sacramento won't admit anyone unless they admit themselves
or someone official like a police officer brings them in. A zombie doesn't want to be confined
and learns how to tell police she's "not a threat to anyone." The police are happy to believe this.

Yesterday an ambulance, sheriff and police car were called out because of her zombie wildness.
They didn't stay more than a few minutes. The zombie continued to harass and stalk the streets.
The police will be called again.

This cannot end well.

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It's always so fun to read YA books that turn out to be wonderful.

Recent ones under the "wonderful" category are:

#RUBY RED....love this!! Time travel, a mysterious family with time-traveling genes, a terrific heroine, love her friends, too. Some surprises about what really happened back in time. So much fun. Only complaint -- waiting for the next book.

#WHISPER -- Didn't know what to expect and kept turning pages trying to figure it out. Exciting, emotional, romantic, fun.

#VESPER by Jeff Sampson -- fun, mysterious, exciting...check it out!

#THE GHOST AND THE GOTH -- Expected a light romance and got a mysterious, exciting ghost story with romance, too. Since my next book will be about a Goth, I especially enjoyed this one.

And I just started reading a book that already is pulling me in like a strong whip: ENCHANTED IVY by Durst.

I can't read for a few hours, though, since I'm going to hang out with some teens at the Galt Library BookClub today. I'm going to tease and delight them with a huge stack of my favorite books including these titles: POISON STUDY, GRACELING, ESCAPE TO MEMORY,  HUNGER GAMES, INCARCERON, INTO THE WILD, THE EMERALD ATLAS, CLARITY and WHITE CAT by Holly Black.

What's your most exciting book discovery lately?

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Greetings from the crazy obsessive butt-in-chair world of writing!

Lately I've written scenes on napkins, the back of bowling flyers and on the envelope of a fan letter while driving (I wasn't texting, okay, and have heard no law against writing while driving). Oops...just remembered, I need to answer that fan letter! It was so sweet, actually hand-written like snail-mail era.

Since last October I've been working on my Big Project. I did Nanowrimo and got 100 pages written in a blur of a writing trance. But by the mid- November, you know what happened? My brain over-loaded. I just couldn't go any more forward without going back and rewriting everything I'd written. This hopeful trilogy has world-building and while the concept of finishing a draft in a furious-flash sounds great, I couldn't go forward because I didn't know enough about the story yet. So I went back and for three months just rewrote, scribbled notes (anyway and everywhere!) until I felt I knew the story enough to continue on.

As of mid-May I have 280 pages, and it's not finished yet...but I can see the end in about six more scenes. And you know that note I scribbled on the back of the fan letter? It's the last few lines of this book. Here's a tiny peak at those words:
 It was never me she wanted. It was him. And now she's lost us both.
Sounds cool, huh? I get chills just thinking about reaching this scene, and the surprise (while except for those of you who read this and remember them a few years forward to after this book a) sells b) is edited c) final publication.

Because I KNOW this book will be published. Even if it falls under the overdone genre of "dystopian." 
That's just what it is, and I got the idea nearly 3 years ago, so I'm not following a trend.
 I'm following my passion.

(PS - I'm not saying the title because it's a really good title and I don't want to put it out in the universe and risk losing it -- that's happened to me several times in the past).

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INTERVIEW WITH FABULOUS YA AUTHOR, JO RAMSEY

1.  When and why did you start writing?       I’ve been writing since I was five. When I was even younger, I made up stories and told them to my stuffed animals, and even back then I knew I wanted to see my stories in books someday. Of course, it took me over thirty years to actually make that happen!

 

2. What’s the strangest thing that’s inspired one of your stories?  Several years ago, I had a friend who thought she was possessed by a demon. Another friend agreed that that was probably the case, and he told me what to do to get rid of the demon. That was one of the inspirations for my Reality Shift series.

 

3. Have you ever based a character on someone you know? If so, did you tell them? Jonah in Reality Shift is based on a man who used to be a friend of mine. He was still my friend when I started writing the Reality Shift books, and he knew I based Jonah on him. He was happy about it.

 

4. What do the people in your “real life” think of your writing?   My 15-year-old daughter pretends to be embarrassed by me, but brags about me to her friends. My 12-year-old tells everyone that her mom’s a writer. My husband is very supportive and encouraging, but refuses to read my books!

 

5. Tell us about your latest book.

My newest book is The Black Bridge (releasing in late May from Jupiter Gardens Press). It’s the first book in a series called The Dark Lines, about teenagers with psychic abilities who become involved in the universal war between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. The Black Bridge was inspired by an old railroad bridge in the city where I grew up. A high school friend of mine told me to stay away from it at night because there was “something dark there.” That stuck with me for over fifteen years until I finally managed to write the story.

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