Category Archives: Jennifer Sommersby

What inspired you to write SLEIGHT? My book-crazy daughter and her friends. They were so sad when they closed the page on the seventh and final Harry Potter; they chewed through the Twilight series in no time flat. In watching them devour series after series from the exploding young adult shelves at the bookstore, I decided to take a break from writing the grown-up stuff and have a go with something new, something that Yaunna and her friends would want to read. Sleight is from a short story I wrote back in 2007, about a 13-year-old girl who lives with … Continue reading →