Fools in Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales - Ashley Herring Blake

Ashley Herring Blake is a reader, writer, and mom to two boisterous boys. She holds a Master's degree in teaching and loves coffee, arranging her books by color, and cold weather. She is the author of the young adult novels Suffer Love , How to Make a Wish , and Girl Made of Stars (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and the middle grade novels Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World and The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James . Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World was a Stonewall Honor Book, as well as a Kirkus, School Library Journal, NYPL, and NPR Best Book of 2018. Her YA novel Girl Made of Stars was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her sixth book, Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea , releases March 2021. She lives in Georgia. Rebecca Podos ' debut novel, The Mystery of Hollow Places , was a Junior Library Guild Selection and a B&N Best YA Book of 2016. Her second book, Like Water , won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Children's and Young Adult. The Wise and The Wicked , her third novel, was recently released. A graduate of the Writing, Literature and Publishing Program at Emerson College, she's an agent at the Rees Literary Agency in Boston by day.