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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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Young Adult, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Richard Peck

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March 2008

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NOTE: If you would like to contact me, please visit my Facebook, Twitter, or website or e-mail me ([email protected]), but DO NOT MESSAGE ME THROUGH GOODREADS. While I have a bio on Goodreads as a service to my readers, I do not visit Goodreads on a regular basis. Like literally twice a year.

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I was born on Long Island and grew up on a street called Salem Court. This probably influenced my interest in witches (It also means I can't use that as a password or security question -- and no, I won't tell you my first pet's name). When I was five years old, my mom said that I should be an author. I guess I must have nodded or something because, from that point on, every poem I ever wrote in school was submitted to Highlights or Cricket ma NOTE: If you would like to contact me, please visit my Facebook, Twitter, or website or e-mail me ([email protected]), but DO NOT MESSAGE ME THROUGH GOODREADS. While I have a bio on Goodreads as a service to my readers, I do not visit Goodreads on a regular basis. Like literally twice a year.

Okay, bio.

I was born on Long Island and grew up on a street called Salem Court. This probably influenced my interest in witches (It also means I can't use that as a password or security question -- and no, I won't tell you my first pet's name). When I was five years old, my mom said that I should be an author. I guess I must have nodded or something because, from that point on, every poem I ever wrote in school was submitted to Highlights or Cricket magazine. I was collecting rejection slips at age seven!

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 good thing. Nonetheless, I learned how to read, and my second grade teacher, Dr. Gross, was much cooler. He was the one who handed me a copy of Ellen Tebbits and said, "I think you're ready for this." I didn't know what that meant, but I was VERY EXCITED.

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. But unlike Christopher Paolini or Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, I never finished writing a novel (Note to teen writers: It's okay not to finish your novel in high school). That was also when I learned to be a keen observer. 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. There is a companion to Breathing Underwater, in Caitlin's viewpoint. It is called Diva.

I started writing an early (and laughable) version of Breathing Underwater in college (I was really bored on a car trip with my parents). I later learned that my mom tossed it out when she was cleaning my drawers. Thanks, Mom! I didn't get back to it until I had my first daughter, Katie. I'm self-taught. I went to the library and took out books on writing. Then, I read a lot of young-adult novels by writers I admired. I write my first drafts longhand, then I type them.

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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Average rating: 3.81 · 212,876 ratings · 15,566 reviews · 21 distinct works · Similar authors

	Beastly (Beastly, #1; Kendra Chronicles, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 151,071 ratings — published 2007 — 73 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 3.77 avg rating — 17,438 ratings — published 2008 — 22 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 3.65 avg rating — 13,471 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Bewitching (Kendra Chronicles, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 8,949 ratings — published 2012 — 13 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) 3.91 avg rating — 6,637 ratings — published 2001 — 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
	Towering 3.34 avg rating — 5,619 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Beastly: Lindy's Diary (Beastly, #1.5; Kendra Chronicles, #1.5) 3.75 avg rating — 2,734 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
	Diva (Breathing Underwater, #2) 3.56 avg rating — 1,712 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	Breaking Point 3.64 avg rating — 1,419 ratings — published 2002 — 15 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
	Nothing to Lose 3.85 avg rating — 1,310 ratings — published 2004 — 8 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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Kendra Chronicles (4 books)
by Alex Flinn (Goodreads Author)
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by Alex Flinn (Goodreads Author)
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Breathing Underwater (2 books)
by Alex Flinn (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 8,349 ratings

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Some of the reviews and promotional materials have compared this to Gone Girl. I liked Gone Girl, and I liked this book, but they're seriously nothing alike. I guess every mystery for the next five years is going to be "like Gone Girl." Gone Girl is ...more
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Alex Flinn and 33 other people liked Sarah's review of Mirrored (Kendra Chronicles, #3): "(Source: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Thanks to HarperCollins and Edelweiss.) *“Mirror, mirror, in my hand, who is the fairest in the land?”* This was an okay Snow White retelling, but I did have some is..." Read more of this review »
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Alex Flinn and 1 other person liked Carrie Mansfield 's review of Mirrored (Kendra Chronicles, #3): "A clever and subtle retelling of Snow White - it should appeal to all YA fans, even those who aren't normally into YA. A full review will post on my blog on 9/16."
Feb 23, 2016 12:56PM · see review
Alex Flinn and 2 other people liked Dana Buno's review of Mirrored (Kendra Chronicles, #3): "I absolutely loved reading this. It is by far the greatest Kendra Chronicles book. The plot was well paced and I was hooked into reading more. This book was impossible to put down. I definitely recommend anyone to read this."
Feb 23, 2016 12:56PM · see review
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Alex Flinn rated a book it was amazing Wake the Hollow by Gaby Triana (Goodreads Author) read in January, 2016	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
I really enjoyed this book! I grew up in New York, so I vaguely remember hearing The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but I wasn't really an enthusiast. I think this book would appeal to people who like Sleepy Hollow lore but it's fine for newbies as well. ...more
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“Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.”
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“those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.”
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“You shouldn't miss someone who don't miss you, right?”
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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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34 votes, 26.8%

The Selection by Kiera Cass

21 votes, 16.5%

Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard

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11 votes, 8.7%

Bewitching by Alex Flinn

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10 votes, 7.9%

Darkness Before Dawn by J.A. London

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10 votes, 7.9%

Dreaming Awake by Gwen Hayes

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10 votes, 7.9%

Entasy by Brynn Myers

9 votes, 7.1%

Jessica Rules the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey

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6 votes, 4.7%

Timeless by Gail Carriger

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5 votes, 3.9%

Poison Princess by Kresley Cole

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4 votes, 3.1%

Dark Heart Surrender by Lee Monroe

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1 vote, 0.8%

Fallen in Love by Lauren Kate

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1 vote, 0.8%

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

1 vote, 0.8%

Size 12 and Ready to Rock Meg Cabot

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1 vote, 0.8%

The Taming of a Scottish Princess by Karen Hawkins

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0 votes, 0.0%

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