Crossed (25 page)
Authors: Eliza Crewe
First off, a huge thank you to my husband, Adam. I know writing swallows up massive amounts of my time and energy and I just want to thank you for your seemingly effortless acceptance of my all-consuming hobby.
Thank you to my critique partners, Mónica Bustamante, who has been along for the whole ride, and Evelyn Skye, a new but insanely talented beta reader. I never could have done it without your brilliant feedback and enthusiastic cheerleading. Also, congratulations to you both on your forthcoming novels FROSH (The Studio/Paper Lantern Lit, fall 2015) and THE CROWN'S GAME (Balzer + Bray 2016). Thank you to the rest of the Bearded Ladies, Stacey Lee & Holly Cagney, for your friendship and writerly camaraderie.
Also, thank you to the rest of the Strange Chemistry refugees. This unexpected journey into self-publishing would have been much harder without your advice and friendship. The silver-lining of the whole Strange Chem debacle is that I got to know all of you.
And last, but not least, thank you to all Meda’s fans. You make it all worth it.
Eliza Crewe always thought she’d be a lawyer, and even went so far as to complete law school. But as they say, you are what you eat, and considering the number of books Eliza has devoured since childhood, it was inevitable she’d end up in the literary world. She abandoned the lawyer-plan to instead become a librarian and now a writer.
While she’s been filling notebooks with random scenes for years, Eliza didn’t seriously commit to writing an entire novel until the spring of 2011, when she and her husband bought a house. With that house came a half-hour commute, during which Eliza decided she needed something to think about other than her road-rage. Is it any surprise she wrote a book about a blood-thirsty, people-eating monster?
Eliza has lived in Illinois, Edinburgh, and Las Vegas, and now lives in North Carolina with her husband, daughter, hens, an angry, talking, stuffed dwarf giraffe, and a sweet, mute, pantomiming bear. She likes to partially-complete craft projects, free-range her hens, and take long walks. Cracked is her first novel.
She is represented by Victoria Marini of Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents, Inc.
CONNECT WITH ELIZA
Website:
http://www.ElizaCrewe.com
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/elizacrewe
Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6559113.Eliza_Crewe
OTHER BOOKS BY ELIZA CREWE
Cracked
(Soul Eater Series #1)
Crushed
(Soul Eater Series #2)