Writing with Scissors
Today I'm a featured author at fellow Musan Clarissa Johal (who is super awesome by the way). Here's a sample of the interview.
So, Liz, please tell us about yourself and how you came to be a writer.
My name is Liz DeJesus, I’m a stay at home mom to two beautiful little boys and I’m also a full time writer (if you can call writing between naptime being a full time writer). I’m the author of Nina, The Jackets and First Frost. I started writing when I was 12 years old, and moved on to poetry at 13 (blame my first boyfriend. He was into poetry and I was trying to impress him). It turned out that I was pretty good at writing poems so I stuck with that for a while. Then when I was 18 I decided that I wanted to be a novelist. I’ve been in love with writing novels and short stories ever since.You started out writing women's fiction such as Nina, The Jacketsand Note to Self, which are quite different than First Frost. What made you embrace the genre of young adult fiction?I’m actually a huge fan of young adult fiction, especially books in the fantasy genre. The main character, Bianca, is seventeen years old and after much soul searching I decided that First Frost would be a fantastic book for young adults. Her best friend Ming is the comedic relief (they have an amazing back and forth dialogue). And basically I’m just having fun writing these books, my hope is for it to be an ongoing series, but for now I have ideas for up to four books. But lucky for me Bianca is an incredible main character and there is an enormous amount of fairy tales that I can draw inspiration from.
Read the rest of the interview here.
And also, thanks to Lydia Sharp and the magic of twitter I'm featured here as well. :) How awesome is that?! http://paper.li/YABookShelf
So, Liz, please tell us about yourself and how you came to be a writer.
My name is Liz DeJesus, I’m a stay at home mom to two beautiful little boys and I’m also a full time writer (if you can call writing between naptime being a full time writer). I’m the author of Nina, The Jackets and First Frost. I started writing when I was 12 years old, and moved on to poetry at 13 (blame my first boyfriend. He was into poetry and I was trying to impress him). It turned out that I was pretty good at writing poems so I stuck with that for a while. Then when I was 18 I decided that I wanted to be a novelist. I’ve been in love with writing novels and short stories ever since.You started out writing women's fiction such as Nina, The Jacketsand Note to Self, which are quite different than First Frost. What made you embrace the genre of young adult fiction?I’m actually a huge fan of young adult fiction, especially books in the fantasy genre. The main character, Bianca, is seventeen years old and after much soul searching I decided that First Frost would be a fantastic book for young adults. Her best friend Ming is the comedic relief (they have an amazing back and forth dialogue). And basically I’m just having fun writing these books, my hope is for it to be an ongoing series, but for now I have ideas for up to four books. But lucky for me Bianca is an incredible main character and there is an enormous amount of fairy tales that I can draw inspiration from.
Read the rest of the interview here.
And also, thanks to Lydia Sharp and the magic of twitter I'm featured here as well. :) How awesome is that?! http://paper.li/YABookShelf
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