Professional Bio
Tera Lynn Childs is the award-winning author of the mythology-based young adult novels Oh. My. Gods. and Goddess Boot Camp (both from Dutton Children's Books), the mermaid novels Forgive My Fins and Fins Are Forever (coming June 28, 2011 from Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins) and a new trilogy about monster-hunting descendants of Medusa (Fall 2011, also from Katherine Tegen Books).
Career Highlights
- Tera's debut novel, Oh. My. Gods., was a double finalist in the 2009 Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Young Adult and Best First Book. The RITAs are the highest award in romance fiction. She took home the shiny gold statue for Best First Book.
- Oh. My. Gods. was also nominated to the 2009-2010 Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers list and the 2010-2011 Texas Tayshas High School Reading List.
- Tera's books have been sold to Scandinavian and German publishers.
- Tera was a finalist in the 2004 Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award for unpublished manuscript with her first (and still unpublished) manuscript, a Regency set historical romance called Summer Sapphire.
Fast Facts
- Tera has lived in eleven states and one foreign country.
- Tera went to the same high school as Brad Pitt.
- Tera is a former 7th grade science teacher.
- Tera holds an MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University.
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