![]() Her Wicked Series has been optioned by PassionFlix. She is published with Tor, HarperCollins Avon and William Morrow, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen. ![]() ![]() Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Due to this diagnosis, educating people on the varying degrees of blindness has become of passion of hers, right alongside writing, which she plans to do as long as she can. In early 2015, Jennifer was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a group of rare genetic disorders that involve a breakdown and death of cells in the retina, eventually resulting in loss of vision, among other complications. she spends her time reading, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell Loki. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. To email me, please use the below 1 New York Times and # 1 International Bestselling author Jennifer lives in Charles Town, West Virginia. If you're interested in reviewing a book of mine before release date, please contact the appropriate publisher. ![]() Hey Guys! Please note: I don't send out ARCs for review. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I listened to a lot of Imagine Dragons and The Cab when I wrote Elite and the sequel Elect. Rachel: I always have to switch up my music. Do you have different writing rituals when you're working on different sub-genres? Joyce: The Bet is contemporary romance and Elite is New Adult, both with distinct voices. Grand Central treats their authors like family, I didn't expect that, and I am so thankful. ![]() I'm daily stunned at all the hard work they put into everything. ![]() I couldn't ask for a better publisher or editors. Rachel: I think I'm still overwhelmed! Haha, is that OK to say? It's been such an amazing experience. Joyce: Welcome to HEA, Rachel! Congratulations on your foray into traditional publishing with The Bet and Elite. (Wait, is "unhealthy addiction" redundant?) Rachel chats with us about writing with different voices in different genres, her favorite food and her unhealthy addiction to The Bachelor. Today we get to meet successful indie-pubbed author Rachel Van Dyken, whose contemporary, The Bet, came out in June, and New Adult romance Elite came out earlier this month, both with Grand Central's Forever line. ![]() ![]() ![]() These changes seemed minor - about the rights of people to trade without interference, about tax levels, and about the balance of power between king and parliament. These were decades when fundamental changes in the economy and politics of Europe were beginning to reshape the old feudal order. ![]() The first couple of pages of the book begin with a beautifully written summation of the changes taking place in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Thus this book contains very little about Cromwell's detailed life (his children and wife get a bare couple of mentions for instance) and much more about the changes going on in English society. In this "decisive century in English history", the "decisive figure" according to Hill, was Oliver Cromwell. ![]() As Hill points out at the very beginning of the book, the first forty years of Cromwell's life a "tangled knot of problems was forming which was only to be unravelled, or cut through, in the revolutionary decades 1640-60". Christopher Hill's biography of Oliver Cromwell is less of the history of the man, and more a history of the world that shaped him and was shaped by Cromwell's life. ![]() |