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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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Average rating: 3.79 · 256,534 ratings · 18,319 reviews · 32 distinct works • Similar authors

	Beastly (Beastly, #1) 3.82 avg rating — 178,782 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 — 19,619 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 — 15,484 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 — 10,585 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 — 9,134 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 — 6,997 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 — 3,342 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 — 2,551 ratings — published 2015	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 — 1,963 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 — 1,668 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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Quotes by Alex Flinn (?)

“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

573 likes

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

tags: miss

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Polls

The 2nd annual Nothing but Reading Challenges' Best 'DRESS'ed Cover Poll. (2012 edition.)

Help us pick out the best DRESSed cover of 2012. If you don't see one of your favorites please feel free to add it. Just make sure you add it to the right dress category and that the cover came out in 2012. We have six categories:

- Red Click here to get to the Poll.
- White Click here to get to the Poll.
- Blue Click here to get to the Poll.
- Purple/Pink Click here to get to the Poll.
- Black/Miscellaneous Click here to get to the Poll.
- Yellow/Gold/Orange Click here to get to the Poll.

Each category has it's own poll and we'll pick the top 3 from each to go in a finally poll to determine which cover had the most beautiful dress. Enjoy!

The colors for this round are Black and other Miscellaneous colors:

Enchanted by Alethea Kontis

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32 votes, 26.4%

The Selection by Kiera Cass

21 votes, 17.4%

Darkness Before Dawn by J.A. London

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10 votes, 8.3%

Bewitching by Alex Flinn

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10 votes, 8.3%

Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard

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10 votes, 8.3%

Dreaming Awake by Gwen Hayes

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9 votes, 7.4%

Entasy by Brynn Myers

8 votes, 6.6%

Jessica Rules the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey

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5 votes, 4.1%

Timeless by Gail Carriger

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5 votes, 4.1%

Poison Princess by Kresley Cole

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4 votes, 3.3%

Fallen in Love by Lauren Kate

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1 vote, 0.8%

Dark Heart Surrender by Lee Monroe

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1 vote, 0.8%

Size 12 and Ready to Rock Meg Cabot

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1 vote, 0.8%

Darkness before Dawn by J.A. London (write-in)

1 vote, 0.8%

The Taming of a Scottish Princess by Karen Hawkins

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0 votes, 0.0%

121 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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