

“Sweet Venom” is the first novel in the “Medusa Girls” series and was released in the year 2011. She is still quite nomadic, to this day, and has moved around quite a bit. She won RITAs in the following categories: National Readers’ Choice for Best First Book, Best Young Adult, and Best First Book.Ĭhilds lives in Las Vegas and writes wherever there is a comfortable chair and where the caffeinated beverages are plenty. Her fourth completed manuscript was the first novel that she had published, which was called “Oh. It is a lot harder to write a novel than it is to read one, she found, and it took her awhile to get on the correct path. She would read one of her favorite romance author’s new books and she felt that is what she wanted to do for a living. In part, this is due to her beginning reading a lot of books. She finished that masters, and still was unsure of what to do with her life, and she began writing. She would get a masters degree from Columbia in Historic Preservation (which is one way of saying saving old buildings). She would get her degree in theater, of all things.

When she went to college, she transferred after just two years at Columbia University to University of Colorado at Boulder. She did make it back to Minneapolis briefly when she was in middle school, but then her family moved to Springfield, Missouri part way through.įor high school, they actually stayed in a single place for high school, she went to Kickapoo High School (Brad Pitt’s high school, but he is twelve years older and she does not know him). The bulk of her elementary school life was spent in Sacramento and San Diego, California. She started kindergarten in Montreal, and by then, she had already lived in Ohio, Colorado, and Indiana. She was born near Minneapolis, Minnesota, but did not stay there long because her parents are nomadic (as they are theater people). Childs has also co-written many other book series as well. Gods.” series, the “Darkly Fae” series, the “City Chicks” series, and the “Sweet Venom” trilogy. She has written the “Forgive My Fins” series, the “Oh.

Author Tera Lynn Childs is a three time RITA award winner and best selling author of young adult novels.
