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Elissa Sussman


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Young Adult, Fantasy


Writer, reader, pumpkin pie eater.

I'm not very active on Goodreads, but I love hearing from readers. Visit my website to see how you can contact or connect with me!

Elissa Sussman is the author of the novel FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK, as well as the young adult novels, DRAWN THAT WAY, STRAY, and BURN.

She has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MFA from Pacific University, and in a previous life managed animators and organized spreadsheets at some of the best animation studios in the world, including Nickelodeon, Disney, Dreamworks, and Sony Imageworks. You can see her name in the credits of THE CROODS, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA, THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG, and TANGLED.

She lives in her hometown of Los Angeles with her husband and their two dogs, Basil an ...more

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STRAY Release Party and Signing

If you live in the Los Angeles area, I will be doing a reading and signing of Stray on Sunday, October 12th at 5pm at the wonderful Skylight Books in Los Feliz.

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Average rating: 3.56 · 185,353 ratings · 28,809 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors
Funny You Should Ask
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Once More with Feeling
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Totally and Completely Fine
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Stray (Four Sisters, #1)
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“It’s almost like I’m coming home. Not to a place, necessarily, but to a feeling. To a possibility of more. And that completely and utterly terrifies me.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask
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“Never let them take what you're not willing to give.”
― Elissa Sussman, Stray
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“But when you're focused on feeding something that can never truly be satiated, you miss what you're actually hungry for.”
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