Sonya Sones was born in Boston and raised in the nearby town of Newton. As a child, she always knew she'd grow up to be an artist. She's worked as a film editor for TV shows like L.A. Law and films like The River's Edge. When her children were babies, she even worked making hand-painted baby clothes!

Sonya's first novel for teens was Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy, followed by What My Mother Doesn't Know and One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies.

When not writing, or traveling around the country speaking about writing, Sonya likes to tend her rose garden, dance, drive her kids around, read, worry and hunt for buried treasure at flea markets. She lives with her family, twenty-six blocks from the beach, not far from Hollywood.

You can visit her on the web here!