Day Twenty Three - All About.. Lauren DeStefano (Wither)

Hello Lovelies! Today I bring you our last Debutante for the whole event! You know it's feels so long but short at the same time! I think I'm going to miss the event and my lovely Debs but they will be fine! Anyway, I also reading Wither right now which is REALLY good, look forward to a mini-review tomorrow and a giveaway....

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Debutante Profile

Name - Lauren DeStefano
Debut - Wither ( Goodreads )
Genre - Dystopian
Website - HERE
Twitter - HERE 

Lauren DeStefano was born in New Haven, Connecticut and has never traveled far from the east coast. She received a BA in English from Albertus Magnus College recently, and has been writing since childhood. She made her authorial debut by writing on the back of children's menus at restaurants and filling up the notepads in her mom's purse. Her very first manuscript was written on a yellow legal pad with red pen, and it was about a haunted shed that ate small children.


Now that she is all grown up (for the most part), she writes fiction for young adults. Her failed career aspirations include: world's worst receptionist, coffee house barista, sympathetic tax collector, and English tutor. When she isn't writing, she's screaming obscenities at her Nintendo DS, freaking her cats out with the laser pen, or rescuing thrift store finds and reconstructing them into killer new outfits.

Dream Debutante -

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Author's Own Message ( ie when they talk about themselves :P)

Ten random things you probably didn’t know about Lauren DeStefano:



10.) My favorite color is purple

9.) I collect Asian ball-jointed dolls. They creep most of my friends out, but I adore them and will often get them custom-made to look like my favorite characters. I do a similar thing when playing The Sims.

8.) My fifth-grade teacher made a yearbook for her graduating class. I was voted most likely to publish a book. (Note: My fifth grade teacher is mentioned in my acknowledgements).


7.) As a child, my birthday candle wish was for the same thing every year: A sibling.


6.) I am a huge craft nerd. With a little help through the internet, I taught myself how to sew and knit, and in college I’d pay bills making anime costumes for people to wear to conventions. Despite this, I have never been able to successfully crochet anything, and am the only person in history to have failed a crochet class.

5.) I have an orange tabby named Cecil, after Cecily, the youngest sister wife in Wither. They have similar personalities.


4.) If I could eat one food for the rest of my life, it would be bagels.


3.) My car’s name is Simon. I refer to him by name in conversation so often that people have mistakenly assumed I’m referring to a boyfriend or a relative.

2.) When I am deep into the writing of a manuscript that is especially dark, I develop a rash on the back of my left hand.


1.) The first book I ever read on my own was Harold and the Purple Crayon. I would sleep with it under my pillow and carry it along on play dates and into the bathtub. Harold remains, to this day, the literary character I most identify with.

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I'm laughing and I don't even know why!!! Hey Lauren, my favourite colour is purple too! *high five* Oh and the rash thing.. that's creepy O_O I named my right shoe Teddie and my left shoe Henry so when I lose a shoe everyone gets worried thinking it's a person! You got voted most likely to publish a book and I got voted the next Shirlena Johnson ( contestant on X factor who reached one million hits on YouTube because she was so hilariously bad ) .....

Badass Bookie xx