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Alex Flinn

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Born

in Glen Cove, New York, The United States

October 23

Website

http://alexflinn.com/

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Genre

Young Adult, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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March 2008

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Love Jacaranda is out in the world! Hope you'll check out this fun wish-fulfillment romance!

Now, 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 Love Jacaranda is out in the world! Hope you'll check out this fun wish-fulfillment romance!

Now, 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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Alex Flinn’s books

Average rating: 3.79 · 255,826 ratings · 18,245 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors

	Beastly (Beastly, #1) 3.82 avg rating — 178,436 ratings — published 2007 — 107 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 3.75 avg rating — 19,571 ratings — published 2008 — 28 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 3.64 avg rating — 15,438 ratings — published 2011 — 34 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) 3.94 avg rating — 10,566 ratings — published 2012 — 24 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) 3.89 avg rating — 9,007 ratings — published 2001 — 30 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 3.36 avg rating — 6,976 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Beastly: Lindy's Diary (Beastly, #1.5; Kendra Chronicles, #1.5) 3.73 avg rating — 3,345 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) 3.68 avg rating — 2,526 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Diva (Breathing Underwater, #2) 3.54 avg rating — 1,949 ratings — published 2006 — 21 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
	Girls of July 3.71 avg rating — 1,639 ratings — published 2019 — 7 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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“Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

tags: beauty, fairy-tale

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“those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

tags: happiness

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“You shouldn't miss someone who don't miss you, right?”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

tags: miss

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Polls

January BoTM Nominations ~ Fairy Tale Retellings ~ Final Poll

Bitter Greens

by Kate Forsyth

11 votes, 35.5%

The Ice Queen

by Alice Hoffman

9 votes, 29.0%

Gretel and the Dark

by Eliza Granville

4 votes, 12.9%

Howl’s Moving Castle

by Diana Wynne Jones

3 votes, 9.7%

Dust

by Kara Swanson

2 votes, 6.5%

Beastly

by Alex Flinn

2 votes, 6.5%

31 total votes

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Alex’s Quotes

“I tell him the ugly duckling grew up to be a huge asshole.” “Why?”
― Alex Flinn, Beheld

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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”
― Alex Flinn, Beheld

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“It is hard to know how to save the world if one has never lived in it.”
― Alex Flinn, Girls of July

tags: bildungsroman, coming-of-age, summer, summer-love

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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.”
― Alex Flinn, Girls of July

tags: bildungsroman, chick-lit, friendship, summer-read

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