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Katie Alender (rhymes with “calendar”!) grew up in South Florida. She is the third of four children (three girls and a boy) and the child of three very loving and encouraging parents.
She attended high school at the Palm Beach County School of the Arts, studying Communication Arts. From there, she went on to the Florida State University Film School, which led her to her current hometown, a tiny hamlet on the West Coast known as “Los Angeles.”
She enjoys writing, reading, sewing (especially quilts), practicing yoga, photography, visiting friends’ blogs, and hanging out with her husband (known on the blog as “the husb”) and her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Winston.
Her first brush with publication was the article “So You Want to Live On Mars?” published in Sassy magazine in December 1991. More recently, she was the head writer on the 48-Hour Film Project “Best of Los Angeles 2007″ winner, Project 96-B, and worked for many years as writer/producer for the Animal Planet Dog Championships and AKC/Eukanuba National Championship dog shows on Animal Planet. Currently, she is a mostly-full-time author.
She is represented by Matthew Elblonk of DeFiore and Company and is a member of SCBWI (the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) and ITW (International Thriller Writers).
She is also a huuuuge fan of talking about herself in the third person.
Online interviews
Old People Writing For Teens – 10/26/09
Book Nerds – 10/15/09
Taste Life Twice – 9/20/09
The Here, the Now, and the Books – 9/12/09
The Book Scout – 9/4/09
Authors Unleashed – 8/21/09
The Compulsive Reader – 7/10/09
Coffee With a Canine – 7/8/09 (with a lot of Winston info for his fans!)
Slayground – 7/7/09
Fantastic Book Review – 6/11/09
The Best D— Creative Writing Blog, Period – 5/12/09
Lauren’s Crammed Bookshelf – 4/21/09
Hope’s Bookshelf – 4/21/09
Book Chic Club @ MySpace – 4/20/09
Bookluver-Carol 4/19/09
Imperial Beach Library Teen Blog – 4/15/09
Podcast Interviews
FreeBookFriday Teens – 4/25/09
Guest blogs & profiles
Books Obsession – 10/21/09
Reverie Book Reviews – 10/14/09
Reading Keeps You Sane – 8/24/09
Sharon Loves Books and Cats (guest vlog) – 8/17/09
Hope’s Bookshelf – 8/12/09
Presenting Debutante Katie Alender at Seize a Daisy
Monday Mysteries Guest Blog @ Books By Their Cover
Random Facts…
Astrological Sign
Gemini
Favorite Color
red
Favorite Music
Indigo Girls, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Elvis, The Eels, The Weepies, Dar Williams, k.d. lang, Jars of Clay, Dolly Parton, The Beatles… a little bit of everything!
Favorite Movies
The Others, Ordinary People, Beauty and the Beast, Pride & Prejudice (A&E), For Richer or Poorer, Three Amigos, Meet Me in St. Louis
Favorite Books
This Place Has No Atmosphere by Paula Danziger
The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
The Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin
On Writing by Stephen King
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Favorite Food
macaroni and cheese, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, steak, mashed potatoes, cookies & milk… pretty much anything that falls under ?comfort food?
Pets
Winston, a 5-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
Siblings
I?m the third of four kids: three girls and one boy
Gryffindor House
Ravenclaw
Team Edward or Team Jacob?
I’m really more of a Team Buffy girl!
Myers-Briggs type
INTP (click here to learn what that is!)
Favorite Poems
A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky by Lewis Carroll
Fiddler Jones by Edgar Lee Masters
Favorite Quotes
“This too shall pass.”
“Judge not lest ye be judged.”
“There’s more than one answer to all these questions pointing me in a crooked line.”
~ Indigo Girls
“I would change for you, but babe, that doesn’t mean I’m going to be a better man.”
~ Crooked Fingers
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Katie Alender’s name is often misspelled as Katie Alendar. Sometimes even as Katie Alexander. Her official website is KatieAlender.com.