Bio: Stacey Jay
Name: Stacey Jay
'09 Book Title: You are So Undead to Me
Publisher: Penguin-Razorbill
Favorite Books: The book that hooked me on YA romance was "The Witch of Blackbird Pond". I'm sure I read it at least every other week during junior high. As far as more recent YA, there are too many good ones to list. I think this is a great time to be a writer and reader of the genre.
Favorite Bit of Writing Advice: Butt in chair, hands on keys. Also, Stephen King's bit of wisdom about setting a word goal or number of pages that you must get done daily. Don't set a certain amount of time you have to work, set a word goal. That way something gets done and you're rewarded for finishing early--cause then you get to go play! Or...go do laundry and take kids to tutoring and the doctor. Take your pick :).
Random Info About Me:
"You are So Undead to Me" Synopsis:
Megan Berry’s social life is so dead. Literally.
Fifteen-year-old Megan Berry is a Zombie Settler by birth, which means she’s part-time shrink to a bunch of dead people with a whole lot of issues.
All Megan wants is to be normal-and go to homecoming, of course. Unfortunately, it’s a little hard when your dates keep getting interrupted by a bunch of slobbering Undead.
Things are about to get even worse for Megan. Someone in school is using black magic to turn average, angsty Undead into flesh-eating Zombies, and it’s looking like homecoming will turn out to be a very different kind of party-the bloody kind.
Megan must stop the Zombie apocalypse descending on Carol, Arkansas. Her life-and more importantly, homecoming-depends on it.
'09 Book Title: You are So Undead to Me
Publisher: Penguin-Razorbill
Favorite Books: The book that hooked me on YA romance was "The Witch of Blackbird Pond". I'm sure I read it at least every other week during junior high. As far as more recent YA, there are too many good ones to list. I think this is a great time to be a writer and reader of the genre.
Favorite Bit of Writing Advice: Butt in chair, hands on keys. Also, Stephen King's bit of wisdom about setting a word goal or number of pages that you must get done daily. Don't set a certain amount of time you have to work, set a word goal. That way something gets done and you're rewarded for finishing early--cause then you get to go play! Or...go do laundry and take kids to tutoring and the doctor. Take your pick :).
Random Info About Me:
- I have a prettier blog here: http://staceyjayya.blogspot.com/ and a website here: http://staceyjay.com
- I also just joined myspace and have very few friends. So if you want to friend me, that would awesome: http://www.myspace.com/staceyjaywriter
- I've been writing full time since 2005, which is also when I became a mom. I love kids, but hate being pregnant, so I'm grateful I've inherited two full time stepdaughters. All the joy of four kids (come November 2008 when number four arrives), only half the hellish gestation.
- I didn't always want to be a writer, but I've always written. My first story was about a girl in the 1700's who disguised herself as a boy to become an apprentice to a blacksmith. There was some kissing, I believe. My second grade teacher was scandalized. (In random sharing, I later dated a blacksmith who made me my very own hatchet. I still have it around somewhere in my "odd mementos from sweethearts past" box. Doesn't everyone have one of those?)
- I majored in Acting and got my B.F.A from Ithaca College in upstate New York. I actually worked as an actor for a few years before quitting the biz when I got pregnant with my son. Have NEVER regretted quitting. Acting, as a profession, is way lamer than people let on.
- I love traveling and will go to extreme measures to get to places I want to be, including hitch hiking across Ireland and traveling solo through France and Italy at the tender age of 20. Now I have to be more conservative since I have buckets of kids, but I plan on resuming my mad travels with the hubs as soon as we raise up a few of these rugrats.
- I also hate watermelon like Sarah Ockler. Have always hated it and am so pysched to find a melon hating sistah! (That includes actual watermelon and things that are watermelon flavored--even though watermelon flavor tastes nothing like actual watermelon.)
"You are So Undead to Me" Synopsis:
Megan Berry’s social life is so dead. Literally.
Fifteen-year-old Megan Berry is a Zombie Settler by birth, which means she’s part-time shrink to a bunch of dead people with a whole lot of issues.
All Megan wants is to be normal-and go to homecoming, of course. Unfortunately, it’s a little hard when your dates keep getting interrupted by a bunch of slobbering Undead.
Things are about to get even worse for Megan. Someone in school is using black magic to turn average, angsty Undead into flesh-eating Zombies, and it’s looking like homecoming will turn out to be a very different kind of party-the bloody kind.
Megan must stop the Zombie apocalypse descending on Carol, Arkansas. Her life-and more importantly, homecoming-depends on it.