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: Patty Blount grew up quiet and somewhat invisible in Queens, NY, but found her superpower writing smart and strong characters willing to fight for what”s right. Today, she”s the award-winning author of edgy, realistic, gut-wrenching contemporary and young adult romance. Still a bit introverted, she gets lost often, eats way too much chocolate, and tends to develop mad, passionate crushes on fictional characters…and Gilles Marini….and Sam Heughan. Let”s be real; Patty”s not nearly as cool as her characters, but she is a solid supporter of women”s rights and loves delivering school presentations. Patty is best known for her tough issues novels. The Internet Issues duo includes SEND and TMI. The #MeToo duo includes SOME BOYS, a 2015 CLMP Firecracker winner, and SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW, a 2018 Junior Library Guild Fall Pick, as well as a double winner of the 2019 Athena Award (Best YA Contemporary and Best of the Best). Visit her website at pattyblount.com, where you can sign up for her newsletter. She blogs at YA Outside the Lines and is also active on Twitter and Facebook. When she”s not writing, Patty loves to watch bad sci-fi movies, live tweeting the hilarity, and scour Pinterest for ideas on awesome bookcases. Patty lives on Long Island with her family in a house that, sadly, lacks bookcases. She loves hearing from readers, especially when they tell her she”s cool (even though she knows it”s not true), and is easily bribed with chocolate. Read…roar!…revel. : Multi-award winning young adult author Melanie Hooyenga writes books about strong girls who learn to navigate life despite its challenges. She first started writing as a teenager and finds she still relates best to that age group. Her award-winning a YA sports romance series, the Rules Series, is about girls from Colorado falling in love and learning to stand up on their own. Her YA trilogy, The Flicker Effect, is about a teen who uses sunlight to travel back to yesterday. The first book, FLICKER, won first place for Middle Grade/Young Adult in the Writer”s Digest 2015 Self-Published eBook awards. When not at her day job as Communications Director at a local nonprofit, you can find her wrangling her Miniature Schnauzer Owen and playing every sport imaginable with her husband Jeremy. My name is Carla Vonzale Lewis and I like my martini”s shaken…never stirred. I was born in Georgia but please don”t mistaken me for a Georgia peach. I”m more like a prickly pear. Speaking of being born, someone asked me recently if I remember my birth. And I have to say, yes, I do remember that handsy doctor pulling me out into the cold. Right Bastard!!!Despite being born in the South, I grew up in the North. California to be exact. Every once in a great while we get to experience all four seasons. But mostly, it”s just heat. You should see our electric bill in the summer! I like the beaches, but not the sand. I enjoy being outside, but the sun gets on my nerves. Does it really need to send its death ray to a single spot on my skin! (I told you I was a prickly pear) And don”t get me started on the traffic.The first part of my life, I worked in customer service. This line of work led to the discovery of my favorite drink, or, rather, several favorite drinks. I could list the many concoction but that would go on forever!Needless to say, it wasn”t an easy job. But I did enjoy talking with people. And when it came time to develop my characters, I drew on those experiences.I have a degree in Fashion Design. Don”t ask. The only thing I gained from those wasted two years of my life, is being introduced to the love of my life, Bobby. He is truly my rock.Why do I write? Well my first book, LINEAGE, answered the question, “What does the big b…