JA Andrews

This review says it better than I ever have: "Wonderful characters, a delightfully optimistic flavor of fantasy that stays just on the right side of epic with all the feels of “cozy".

-Andy Peloquin, author of Darkblade

I grew up in Denver, Colorado and...I don't know if that influenced me! I did grow up with the dramatic mountains as the backdrop to every day, and it led me to want to live in the mountains themselves, which I now do. There is definitely a love of forests and mountains in my books.

Voracious. My older brother had a big bookshelf of fantasy books. I read them all, then took my babysitting money to Waldenbooks in the mall and sat in the fantasy aisle and read the back of book after book, trying to figure out how many of them I could afford.

I would suggest starting at the beginning with book one of The Keeper Chronicles, A Threat of Shadows.

Jane Austen, C.S. Lewis, Barbara Kloss, Juliet Marillier, and...I'm drawing a blank for the fifth.

This question makes me realize I never gift books! If I were to, though, I would gift Pride and Prejudice, because I love it.

I don't think I have one. All my main characters deal with things I'm dealing with while writing the book. One was reconciling who you have become compared to who you thought you'd be. One was coming to terms with the fact that even if you don't have the skills that you're expected to have, you have other unique strengths. One was dealing with the struggle of wanting to stay mostly in your own small world and care for your own family, but feeling drawn into the troubles of the world around you. One struggled with constantly remembering all her failures and trying to figure out how to think about them in a healthy way. So I think I split myself evenly among them all.

I loved visiting Powell’s in Portland. It’s the sort of place that feels like you stepped through a portal into a magical world made completely of books.

I currently write in an attic room that I love for the sloping walls and coziness. We live in the mountains, and the views out my little attic windows are gorgeous.

A cozy window seat with a beautiful mountain view, something warm to drink, and a blanket.