January 18, 2019

Today’s First Lines comes from More Than Words by Jill Santopolo out February 5, 2019.

First Lines:

“SOMETIMES NINA GREGORY GOT LOST IN THE ELASTICITY of time. When she was concentrating on something with a singular focus, time seemed to stretch, like a rubber band pulled taut, until—snap!—the sound of a cleared throat or a car horn would make time feel normal again.

She was lost there now, putting the finishing touches on the speech her boss, Rafael, was going to give at tonight’s campaign fund-raiser. “You’re in the Nina zone,” her college roommate, Leslie, would have said if she were there.”

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About the Author:

Jill Santopolo is the author of the The Light We Lost, the Alec Flint Mysteries, the Sparkle Spa series, and the Follow Your Heart books. She holds a BA in English Literature from Columbia University, an MFA in Writing for Children from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and a certificate in Intellectual Property Law from NYU. Jill is also the Editorial Director of Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group. When she’s not writing or editing, Jill is a thesis advisor at The New School in their MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults and is on the faculty of the Columbia Publishing Course. Jill has traveled all over the U.S.- and to Canada and Europe—to speak about writing and storytelling. She lives in New York City.

Twitter: @jillsantopolo Instagram: jillsantopolo

Facebook: /jillsantopoloauthor

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