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Lexa Hillyer

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Lexa is the author of Lola isn’t Home Right Now, published by Gallery Books, as well as four critically-acclaimed young adult novels, all published by HarperCollins: Proof of Forever, Spindle Fire, Winter Glass, and Frozen Beauty. She has also published several novels under pseudonym, as well as a multiple-award-winning poetry collection, Acquainted with the Cold. Lexa began her career as a fiction editor at HarperCollins and Penguin Books, and now works as a narrative consultant, book coach, celebrity ghostwriter, and producer. She is based in Brooklyn, NY.

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Lexa Hillyer Hone your craft. Take classes, share your work with other writers and mentors, read a lot, and practice-practice-practice. Always challenge yourself; …moreHone your craft. Take classes, share your work with other writers and mentors, read a lot, and practice-practice-practice. Always challenge yourself; it's not just about putting words down, it's about putting exciting, special words down in innovative, thoughtful, emotionally-committed ways. BE your characters. Live and breathe what they experience, and that will come out on the page.(less)
Lexa Hillyer By reading writers who are better than I am. Also TALKING. Sometimes writers like to be secretive about what they're working on but I find that the mo…moreBy reading writers who are better than I am. Also TALKING. Sometimes writers like to be secretive about what they're working on but I find that the more I talk about it, the more it comes together and I'm able to stay committed to the story.(less)
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Spindle Fire (Spindle Fire #1)

3.43 avg rating — 3,903 ratings — published 2017 — 12 editions
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Proof of Forever

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Winter Glass (Spindle Fire #2)

3.42 avg rating — 1,053 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions
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Frozen Beauty

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Acquainted with the Cold

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“She's been so blind. To think she was a prisoner of circumstances, that it was her lack of voice, a jealous faerie bargain, that held her back all these years. Really, it has always been her own obedience - her desire to please, to do everything right, to follow instead of lead - that has stopped her from truly living.”
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“Sommeil gives her that exact feeling: those brief hours when you are holding an unread story in your hands and don't yet know how it will end. You would be content if the biscuits never rose and were never consumed, the irises in the garden never bloomed and faded, the rain hovered but never fell. The not-yet-ness tastes sweeter than the thing you're waiting for.”
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“Life doesn't always hand you the answers. Sometimes the best you can do is make a decision and stick to it. Tali's dad always says that the best business decisions rely on intuition, after all. There isn't always a right move, just a move that feels right.”
Lexa Hillyer, Proof of Forever

“You know, I used to love looking at the stars at night. I used to think they were put there to guide us. Now I know they are just watching and winking, mute observers, bemused by our failures and our loss.”
Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire
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“No matter how much you try, you cannot change the future. You cannot change. Not really. That's the problem with optimism, with hope. You end up disappointed.”
Lexa Hillyer, Proof of Forever

“I was falling. Falling through time and space and stars and sky and everything in between. I fell for days and weeks and what felt like lifetime across lifetimes. I fell until I forgot I was falling.”
Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

“You know, I used to love looking at the stars at night. I used to think they were put there to guide us. Now I know they are just watching and winking, mute observers, bemused by our failures and our loss.”
Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire
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“Why should I learn of another world, a vaster world, if it means regretting my whole life until now? Who wants to be made to loathe what they have? Small as it is, my life is mine.”
Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire
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“It's crazy to think that they've been so close to a way out all this time, but have never known it.
Then again, she realizes, perhaps everyone has the key to her own prison. Maybe freedom is just a matter of knowing the right story, of being brave enough to say the right words in the right order at the right time.”
Lexa Hillyer, Spindle Fire

“We sculpt truth out of the world's formlessness, and thus it is often precisely what we already believe that comes to pass.”
Lexa Hillyer, Winter Glass

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