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Jillian Cantor

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Jillian Cantor is the USA Today and internationally bestselling author of fifteen novels for teens and adults, which have been chosen for LibraryReads, Indie Next, Amazon Best of the Month, and have been translated into 15 languages. Born and raised in a suburb of Philadelphia, Cantor currently lives in Arizona with her husband and two sons.

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Will there be a sequel to Searching for Sky? *please say yes, please say yes!*
Jillian Cantor I have an idea sketched out for a sequel and would love to (and hope to be able to) write it someday!
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Do you feel like your characters have a life of their own and you're just writing it all down, or do you feel like you are creating them as you go along?
Jillian Cantor They absolutely feel like real people to me. When I'm in the middle of writing a draft, I think about my characters a lot as if they were real and som…moreThey absolutely feel like real people to me. When I'm in the middle of writing a draft, I think about my characters a lot as if they were real and sometimes even dream about them. (less)
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Average rating: 3.92 · 61,080 ratings · 9,104 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors
The Lost Letter
4.23 avg rating — 15,258 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions
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Beautiful Little Fools
4.01 avg rating — 14,119 ratings — published 2022 — 18 editions
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In Another Time
3.79 avg rating — 7,725 ratings — published 2019 — 16 editions
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Margot
3.83 avg rating — 7,206 ratings — published 2013 — 17 editions
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Half Life
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The Fiction Writer
3.17 avg rating — 3,767 ratings — published 2023 — 13 editions
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The Hours Count
3.88 avg rating — 3,015 ratings — published 2015 — 14 editions
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The Code for Love and Heart...
3.47 avg rating — 1,998 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions
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Searching for Sky
3.71 avg rating — 1,493 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions
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The Greatest Lie of All
3.83 avg rating — 1,060 ratings — published 2024 — 6 editions
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“ ... sometimes we breathe because we have to, not because we want to ...”
― Jillian Cantor, Margot
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“Lying can be a second skin, but when you are called out on that lie, it can become all too easy for that skin to start to peel away.”
― Jillian Cantor, Margot
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“Whereas it was so hard for people to break, but we could get sick or die in what seemed like a matter of seconds.”
― Jillian Cantor, The Life of Glass
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message 2: by Shalonda (last edited Feb 15, 2010 09:09PM)
Feb 15, 2010 08:06PM

Shalonda Williams-Lynard Hey Hey Jillian. Just stopping to wish you agreat week. I hope that all is well and that you are feeling awesome! Peace And thanks for the friendship!


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Feb 03, 2009 08:34PM

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