Sara Raasch has known she was destined for bookish things since the age of five, when her friends had a lemonade stand and she tagged along to sell her hand-drawn picture books too.

Not much has changed since then-her friends still cock concerned eyebrows when she attempts to draw things and her enthusiasm for the written word still drives her to extreme measures.

Beth Revis is the author of the New York Times best selling Across the Universe series; the companion novel, The Body Electric; a twisty contemporary novel, A World Without You; and numerous short stories.

A native of North Carolina, Beth is currently working on a new novel for teens. She lives in rural NC with her boys: one husband, one son, and two dogs roughly the size of Ewoks