About Alyssa
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I'm so glad you're here.
Growing up, I read every book I could get my hands on and somehow talked my mom into letting me ride my bike to the local second-hand bookstore. I spent all of my allowance on paperbacks with yellowed pages. My favorite book was (and remains) Quest for A Maid by Frances Mary Hendry. On my most recent re-read, I noticed that it's also published by FSG Books for Young Readers. It feels so lovely and prophetic that I've carried that book in my heart for many years. It never occurred to me that I could be an author. I assumed everyone who wrote books was either old, dead, or both. My greatest ambition was to be in the Sea Lion and Otter Show at Sea World. Alas, I loathed the smell of dead fish, so I had to look for other career options. I tried several options, most amusingly working as a caretaker for a colony of flying squirrels being studied by biologists. It wasn’t until I moved to Los Angeles as an adult that I started writing books. I took some classes at UCLA Extension and wrote my first novel which will no-way-never-ever be published. It taught me a lot though and I tried again. That second novel turned out to be The Gilded Girl. Then I wrote The Tarnished Garden and another book that I love but probably won’t be published. That’s the way it goes sometimes. But I kept writing and my latest novel, Where Only Storms Grow, will be published on August 18th, 2025. I now live in Virginia with my husband, twin daughters, and our dog, Daisy. When I’m not writing or thinking about books, I enjoy trying new recipes and attempting to build things around the house with moderately scary power tools. When I’m lucky enough to travel, I love learning about history around the world. Stories really are everywhere. Thank you for reading mine. I use she/her pronouns. |
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