Jennifer Echols
Jennifer Echols is an American writer of romantic fiction for young adults.[1] A former newspaper editor and college teacher, she currently works as a freelance copyeditor. She lives in Alabama, where she was born, with her husband and son.
Her first novel, Major Crush, drew on her own experiences as the first female drum major of her high school marching band. Several of her novels are light romantic comedies, but later novels Going Too Far, Forget You and Love Story are more intense and dramatic. Major Crush won the National Reader's Choice Award, and Going Too Far was a finalist in the RITA, the National Reader's Choice Award, and the Book Buyer's Best, and was nominated by the American Library Association as a Best Book for Young Adults.
The Romantic Times described Jennifer Echols as a "tremendously talented writer with a real gift for developing relationships".[2]
[edit] Bibliography
- Major Crush (2006)
- The Boys Next Door (2007) - included in the anthology Endless Summer
- The Ex Games (2009) - included in the anthology Winter's Kiss with Catherine Hapka's The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Going Too Far (2009)
- Endless Summer (2010) - sequel to The Boys Next Door. Both novels are included in an anthology which is also titled Endless Summer.
- Forget You (2010)
- Love Story (2011) - Nominee for Goodreads Choice Award - 2011 Best Young Adult Fiction[3]
- Love on the Edge - anthology including Going to Far and Forget You
- The One That I Want (available as ebook December 6, 2011 and in paperback February 7, 2012)
- Such a Rush (July 10, 2012)
Echols also has an unnamed YA romantic novel scheduled for released in 2013 and two adult contemporary romances for Simon & Schuster tentatively scheduled for release in April and September 2013.
[edit] References
- ^ Jennifer Echols at Fantastic Fiction
- ^ Quoted on the cover of Forget You
- ^ http://www.goodreads.com/award/choice/2011#56606-Best-Young-Adult-Fiction
