Prologue

Who is Kristen?

She’s just a girl who writes.

It began with country-western song lyrics at age eight, and progressed to her first novel at age ten. Alas, that young adult mystery accidentally met its demise to the great trashcan due to being mistaken for “just a pile of used paper.” (As if there is such a thing!)

Ages thirteen to seventeen brought award-winning poetry and short stories to the mix.

At age eighteen, she found her love for professional manuscript editing. After all, she was the only person she knew who would whip out a highlighter to mark the errors she found in professionally edited novels.

After college, she began ghostwriting – everything from nonfiction editorials to short stories.

Currently, she is working on completing her first dystopic young adult fiction novel.