L. J. Smith's Biography

• She started to write in elementary school.
• She wrote her first published book while attending college at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
• She taught public school for several years.
• She likes to encourage young writers to express themselves.
• She lives in the Bay area of Northern California with one dog and three cats.
• She is looking forward to the Millenium and wonders what the future will bring.
• She gets some of her best ideas by sitting under the stars.
• She realized that she wanted to be a writer some time between kidnigarten and first grade.
• "Dreams and nightmares have haves fascinated her. Many of her books, including "The Forbidden Game" trilogy, are based on her own nightmares and those of her friends."
• She enjoys writing about strong female characters and encourages girls to read, write, and reach for their dreams.
• Since childhood she has been fascinated by the night and the way the ordinary world changes in moonlight.
• She enjoys computers, mythology, walking in the woods at night, and animals.

L.J.Smith's New book "Strange Fate" is unfortunately slow in publishing due to internal factors. It will be out a.s.a.p.