Blurb Quote by R.J. Anderson

“THERE ONCE LIVED A GIRL WHO WAS KILLED, THEN BROUGHT back to life.”

— Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

“She was a woman, a traitor, and a killer. Males and females wanted her. But I was the only one who ever could have…

— Denis Johnson

“Once upon a time she had felt trapped inside her story with its familiar characters and predictable plot. Now she felt locked out of…

— Roderick Townley

“In stories, when someone appears in a poof of green clouds and asks a girl to go away on an adventure, it’s because she’s…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“This girl who equally drove me crazy and made me care about her more than I should. She was the only one who understood.…

— Stacey Kade

“Once there was a girl who was drawn to wicked things. Things like forbidden, ancient stories. It didn’t matter that the old stories killed…

— Kristen Ciccarelli

“And you don’t know this, but that girl? The one left outside of that school alone? She’s sitting there writing about you. You have…

— J.M. Darhower

“Supposedly she’d died, but here she was again–somewhat changed, but you couldn’t kill her. Not when the truest part of her hadn’t even been…

— Denis Johnson

“she had lately come to understand injustice and tricks of fate, and how they could turn you into someone else completely, maybe even turn…

— Julie Anne Long

“Once upon a time, there was a story. But no one to tell it.”

— A.D.Y. Howle

“I’m still not good enough for a girl like her, but she’s back in my life and she needs someone to protect her. I’ll…

— Katie McGarry

“She’d noticed immediately that I understood the lure of a good story. Sometimes a world that doesn’t exist is the only escape from the…

— Lisa Wingate