![]() ![]() ![]() Trust me, astronauts have an interesting job and that does not necessarily make them interesting people.) Her bio should be titled “True Renaissance Woman” because she is also a well-traveled child psychiatrist, a former forensic psychiatrist at a women’s prison, a trained psychoanalyst, a surgery intern, a film scholar, and a former Air Force major. (That says a lot, because I’ve met a lot of people, including astronauts. But before Ilsa settled into YA, she wrote Star Trek, Mechwarrior, and Battletech, among others.įirst and foremost, Ilsa is simply one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met. What has she written? Well, most recently, award-winning YA apocalyptic thrillers and sophisticated horror for older teens including Draw the Dark, Drowning Instinct, The Sin-Eater’s Confession, the Ashes trilogy, White Space, and The Dickens Mirror. This time it was Community Conversations: Ilsa J. My local library does these events as a fundraiser, so it was a low-key evening full of wonderful gems of writerly wisdom. ![]() Last week I had the opportunity to attend a talk by another successful, well-known author. ![]()
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