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About the Author
Jessica Burkhart rode horses when she was a little girl...until eighth grade when she had aspinal fusion for severe scoliosis. During her recovering, she read a lot of magazines and learned that she could send in stories to the magazines. She learned to write queries and sent tons and tons and tons and tons of terrible ones to magazines. Each querie wasn't put into the magazines, but that didn't stop Jess! She wrote to patch up the hole that was left at her lack of riding.
After about 100 articles she wrote got accepted (that were about volunteering at the Humane Society, and NOT what she thought editors wanted) she joined National Novel Writing Month in November 2006 when she was a senior at Florida State University. The goal of National Novel Writing Month was the write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. On December 1st, 2006 the first draft of Take The Reins was finished!
A year later, an agent was reading Jessica's blog and asked her if she could read her manuscript. After deciding, Jess sent her manuscript to NYC. After signing with the agent, and in ten days, she had a four book deal with from Simon & Schuster's Aladdin MIX!
Jess now lives in NYC, fulfulling her passion for horses with her pashion for writing.
Where in the internet is Jess?
jessicaburkhart.com
canterwoodcrest.com
twitter.com/jessicaburkhart
myspace.com/writerjessicaburkhart
jessicaburkhart.blogspot.com
jess_burkhart_hotmail.com
