Cycler (21 page)

L
AUREN
M
C
L
AUGHLIN
grew up in a small Massachusetts town called Wenham. She had a normal, crisis-free upbringing, which has utterly deprived her of personal horror stories from which to draw for her fiction. The parents in
Cycler
are very definitely not based on her own parents.

After college and a short stint in graduate school, she spent ten “unglamorous” years in the film industry, both writing and producing, before abandoning her screen ambitions to write fiction full-time.
Cycler
is her first published novel and she is currently working on the sequel.

Lauren is passionate about writing, women’s rights, and technology. She lives with her photographer husband, Andrew Woffinden, in Brooklyn. Her Web site and blog can be found at
www.laurenmclaughlin.net
.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2008 by Lauren McLaughlin

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McLaughlin, Lauren.
Cycler         /         by Lauren McLaughlin.         —         1st ed.
p.                  cm.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Jill is a fairly normal high school senior whose focus is on getting a certain boy to ask her to prom, but four days a month she transforms into surly Jack, who decides it is time he had his own life and a chance with the girl he wants.
[1. Sex—Fiction. 2. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 3. Family problems— Fiction. 4. High schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction. 6. Massachusetts—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M2238Cyc 2008
[Fic]—dc22                                    2007042304

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