Sara Shepard
For as long as she can remember, Sara Shepard has been writing. However, when she was young she also wanted to be a soap opera star, a designer for LEGO, a filmmaker, a claymation artist, a geneticist, and a fashion magazine editor when she grew up. She and her sister have been creating joint artistic and written projects for years, except they’re pretty sure they’re the only ones who find them funny.
She got her MFA at Brooklyn College and now lives outside Philadelphia, PA with her husband and dogs. Her first adult novel is called The Visibles/ All The Things We Didn’t Say.
Sara’s bestselling young adult series, Pretty Little Liars, is loosely based on her experiences growing up on Philadelphia’s Main Line…although luckily she never had any serious stalkers. The series has also inspired the ABC Family television series of the same name.
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The Amateurs: Amateurs Series (Book 1) Four teens who met on an online cold-case solving forum attempt to solve another teen's murder. |
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Lying Game: Lying Game Series (Book 1) Seventeen-year-old Emma Paxton steps into the life of her long-lost twin Sutton to solve her murder, while Sutton looks on from her afterlife. |
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The Perfectionist: Perfectionist Series (Book 1) Ava, Caitlin, Mackenzie, Julie, and Parker are all driven to be perfect--no matter the cost. At first the girls think they have nothing in common, until they discover that they all hate the same person: handsome womanizer Nolan Hotchkiss, who's done things to hurt each of them. They come up with the perfect plan to murder Nolan--jokingly, of course. They'd never actually go through with it. But when Nolan turns up dead in the exact way they'd discussed, the girls suddenly become prime suspects in his murder. Only, they didn't do it. So who did? Unless they find the real killer, and soon, their perfect lives will come crashing down around them. |
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Pretty Little Liars: Pretty Little Liars Series (Book 1) When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know everything about their past and present secrets. |
When we asked our authors what they were or might have been voted in HS, Sara answered I was sort of voted "Renaissance Woman" because I was into science, art, writing, and on the track team. But I so wasn't a Renaissance Woman. I couldn't hang pants on a hanger..
Other Fun Facts
- I love to knit stuffed animals.
- When I was young my worst words were "spine" and "packet".
- I have a secret regret that I didn't go to medical school. I love reading medical mysteries and watching shows like "Mysteries of the ER".
- I am terrible at wrapping gifts and seriously cannot fold a t-shirt.
- The first time I did a cameo on "Pretty Little Liars", it took me about ten takes to get my lines right. The second time I did a cameo, they had me sit on an old box to read my lines (I was a reporter), and I wore ugly, comfy sneakers. But you can't see it in the shot!
