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JJ ELLIOTT is a professional copywriter with a degree in English from UCLA. She lost her mother to suicide as a teenager, and spent over two years in her 20’s manning the suicide hotlines in LA. One of the reasons she wrote There Are No Rules For This is because she finds herself increasingly frustrated by the way suicide is treated in print and on-screen, as a mystery to be solved instead of a multi-layered, complex condition that can rarely be boiled down to one specific “reason.”

There Are No Rules For This is her first novel. It was awarded two Zibby Awards: Best Book for Best Friends and Best Book That Made You Cry. It was also a finalist in Best New Fiction in the International Book Awards.

A native of Northern California, she now liv ...more

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“Imagine that—a reverend embracing the irreverent. I love a world in which this could happen.”
― J.J. Elliott, There Are No Rules for This

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“Something you don’t know about grief until you’re smack in the middle of it is: It’s really fucking physical.”
― J.J. Elliott, There Are No Rules for This

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“For all I know I’d give them a hug and then punch them in the face. That’s how wide the pendulum of my emotions is swinging right now.”
― J.J. Elliott, There Are No Rules for This

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