Jennifer Echols

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Jennifer Echols is an American writer of romantic fiction for young adults . As a former newspaper editor , university professor and freelance lecturer, Echols now writes full-time. She lives in Alabama with her husband and son .

Her first novel, Major Crush , built on her own experience as the first drum major in her high school marching band. Echols divides her writing between light romantic comedies and more intense dramas . In April 2012 Echols wrote, "I love to write romantic dramas like Such a Rush and the book I am now writing [ Dirty Little Secret ], but I would feel a hole in my heart if I didn't have the chance to get romantic YA again - Writing comedies.

Major Crush won the National Reader's Choice Award, and Going Too Far was a finalist on RITA, National Reader's Choice Award, Book Buyer's Best, and was nominated for Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association . Love Story was a 2011 finalist for the Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fiction.

The Romantic Times described Jennifer Echols as "an enormously talented writer with a real gift for developing relationships".

bibliography

Comedies for adults

  • Major Crush (August 1, 2006)
  • The Boys Next Door (June 26, 2007)
  • The Ex Games (September 8, 2009)
  • Endless Summer (May 25, 2009)
  • The One That i Want (December 6, 2011 [eBook]; February 7, 2012 [paperback])
  • Winter's Kiss (January 3, 2012)
  • Biggest Flirts (May 20, 2014)
  • Perfect Couple (December 2014)
  • Most Likely to Succeed (August 2015)

Dramas for young adults

  • Going Too Far (March 17, 2009)
  • Forget You (July 20, 2010)
  • Love Sotry (July 19, 2011)
  • Such a Rush (July 10, 2012)
  • Dirty Little Secret (July 16, 2013)

New adults

  • Levitating Las Vegas (May 7, 2013)

Adults

  • Starcrossed (February 26, 2013)
  • Playing Dirty (October 29, 2013)

On April 10, 2012, Echols announced in their travel journal that they had sold three more romantic YA comedies to Simon Pulse. These novels will not be part of the Simon Pulse Romantic Comedy series. Instead, they will be a trilogy focused on high school students who have won excellent awards. Echols described the "Superlatives Series" as "three novels about senior citizens at a Florida high school selected for their class who's who categories and how the labels change the way they see themselves and the course of their lives." These novels will be published in 2014/2015.

In her blog post dated Nov. 10, 2012, Echols also mentioned a desire to write more novels for the Levitating Las Vegas and Stargazer series, as well as more dramas for young adults, but said future contracts will depend solely on the sales of her 2013 novels.

In February 2013, Echols noted on her Twitter account and Livejournal blog that she was beginning to work on suggestion for the possible episodes on the Levitating Las Vegas and Stargazer series, as well as a new drama for young adults called Dirty Little Secret the last is what she planned. Echols also mentioned that she completed the first manuscript for the first young adult comedy in the Superlative series, and also worked on a draft for the second. Both novels should appear in 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jennifer Echols. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Don't forget to write ... - Happy news! December 25, 2012, archived from the original on December 25, 2012 ; accessed on June 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Verbatim quote from Forget You magazine .
  4. ↑ Don't forget to write ... - My 2013. December 11, 2012, archived from the original on December 11, 2012 ; accessed on June 15, 2019 .
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SURNAME Echols, Jennifer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century