Hello! I’m the co-author of the novel,,Sparked, along with Malena Watrous. We’ve both published solo novels, but if you’ve ever tried to write anything, you know that writing can be a lonely, angst-filled business. So one night over a glass of wine, we came up with a solution: write our next book together. Malena already had an idea: a girl's sister is kidnapped and she has to rely on mean girls with superpowers to get her sister back. We couldn't resist seeing where that story would take us – a wild ride that includes a loner girl who wants to be a writer and a gorgeous boy who can shoot fire from his eyes but also loves to talk about books. And an ancient Zoroastrian prophecy. And pie shakes. (OK, so maybe we got a little carried away.) Like Malena, I teach fiction-writing for Stanford’s Continuing Studies department, a glorious job because it’s just so much easier helping other people with their writing than figuring out how to fix your own. I live in Berkeley, California with my tae kwon do instructor husband and our two kids.