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Alex Flinn

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in Glen Cove, New York, The United States

October 23

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Okay, I'm starting with a question: Why is it that, no matter how many good reviews one of my books gets on Goodreads, the top review displayed is ALWAYS negative? Always. Like, Beastly has over 100,000 good reviews. Those can't ALL be my friends because I'm not THAT popular (not even close). Yet the top 2 reviews displayed are one star. My newest book is over 4 stars, but the first review displayed is someone who doesn't like it because she didn't realize it was an e-mail narration, despite the title and description. Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is, maybe read past the first review or display them by date or something. Goodreads algorithm hates me!

Anyway, bio:

I grew up on a street called Salem Court. This probably influenced my interest Okay, I'm starting with a question: Why is it that, no matter how many good reviews one of my books gets on Goodreads, the top review displayed is ALWAYS negative? Always. Like, Beastly has over 100,000 good reviews. Those can't ALL be my friends because I'm not THAT popular (not even close). Yet the top 2 reviews displayed are one star. My newest book is over 4 stars, but the first review displayed is someone who doesn't like it because she didn't realize it was an e-mail narration, despite the title and description. Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is, maybe read past the first review or display them by date or something. Goodreads algorithm hates me!

Anyway, bio:

I grew up on a street called Salem Court. This probably influenced my interest in witches. When I was five, my mom said I should be an author. And when I was eight, I got my first rejection letter from Highlights Magazine.

I learned to read early. 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. When the other kids were on Book 20, I was on Book 1! My teacher, Mrs. Zeiser, told my mother, "Alexandra marches to her own drummer." I don't think that was supposed to be a compliment.

My family moved to Miami when I was in middle school. I had a really hard time making friends, so I spent a lot of time reading and writing then. By high school, I'd made some friends and gotten involved in various "gifted and talented" performing arts programs. I studied opera in college (I'm a coloratura -- the really loud, high-pitched sopranos.) and then went to law school.

It was law school that probably helped with my first novel. Breathing Underwater deals with the serious and all-too-common problem of dating violence. I based the book on my experiences interning with the State Attorney's Office and volunteering with battered women. I thought this was a really important topic, as 27 percent of teenage girls surveyed have been hit by a boyfriend. 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 think I write for young-adults because I never quite got over being one. In my mind, I am still 13-years-old, running laps on the athletic field, wearing this really baggy white gymsuit. I’m continually amazed at the idea that I have a checking account and a mortgage. So I try to write books that gymsuit girl might enjoy. It’s a way of going back to being thirteen . . . knowing what I know now.

Right now, I live half a mile away from my old middle school, in Palmetto Bay, a suburb of Miami, with my husband, daughters, dogs, and cats. ...more

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How writers predict what will become obsolete: Breathing Underwater for the iPhone generation

My publisher is releasing my 2001 book, Breathing Underwater, with a new cover, its third. The reason for this is, basically, because boys don't like to read the book with its current cover, which shows a boy and a girl. I actually got an e-mail from a teacher who wanted to know how to buy 100 copies of the book with its 2001 cover for this reason. I find this a bit frustrating because I feel lik

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Average rating: 3.8 · 239,074 ratings · 17,174 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	Beastly (Beastly, #1; Kendra Chronicles, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 168,048 ratings — published 2007 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Kiss in Time 3.76 avg rating — 18,752 ratings — published 2008 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cloaked 3.65 avg rating — 14,744 ratings — published 2011 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bewitching (Kendra Chronicles, #2) 3.95 avg rating — 10,010 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breathing Underwater (Breathing Underwater, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 7,802 ratings — published 2001 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Towering 3.35 avg rating — 6,549 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beastly: Lindy's Diary (Beastly, #1.5; Kendra Chronicles, #1.5) 3.73 avg rating — 3,110 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mirrored (Kendra Chronicles, #3) 3.67 avg rating — 2,067 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diva (Breathing Underwater, #2) 3.54 avg rating — 1,869 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breaking Point 3.64 avg rating — 1,568 ratings — published 2002 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I tell him the ugly duckling grew up to be a huge asshole.” “Why?”
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“Sometimes, I stay up all night reading book after book, for I have no family to object, and when I wake in the morning, slumped over a table or fallen off a chair, back aching, cold because no one thought to cover me with a blanket or tell me to come to bed, I feel very fortunate.” Silence”
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“It is hard to know how to save the world if one has never lived in it.”
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“Before she came here, she'd thought she could be independent. Now, she knew she could -- but only if she had the help of others and was able to help them in return.”
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