Cyn was born in Edison, New Jersey. She went to Woodbrook Elementary, WoodrowWilson, and J.P. Steven High school. If you did, too, don’t think you might remember her. She was way shy back then, opening her mouth to say a total of two or three words every year. She spent most of her time at the desk in her bedroom, creating stories. We won’t go into all those stories here, but one had a crime-solving feline. Brilliance!

She is still trying to get her agent to look at that one.

During her summers, Cyn spent most of her time working at the Jersey Shore.  She would also write a lot, and wrote her first young adult novel when she was 15.  She worked at the Park Bakery in Seaside Park, as a waitress who could whip up a mean funnel cake and egg cream, as a cashier the A&P (where she was fired for somehow losing $250 and STILL doesn’t know what happened to that money!  But… humiliating!)… until she finally got her dream job of badge checker on the 7th Avenue beach.  The job was great and allowed for lots of writing and reading time!

Sadly, though, the uniforms messed up her tan lines (oh, who is she kidding, ghosts tan better than she does).  She went to Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.  Douglass College is an all-women school, or so they say, but that’s really a crock because all your classes are with the other Rutgers men.  Not that she minded Rutgers Men very much.  In fact, she married one.

After college, she immediately set out to look for another job that wouldn’t mess with her tan lines.  She had a degree in Communication, which is ironic considering her early inability to speak.  She nailed a altogether pathetic job making minimum wage at a newspaper (we were in a recession!  Job search = hell!).  Since then, she’s worked for a shrinkwrapping company, an insurance company, a bank, a promotional products company, and a magazine.  She’s lived in Jersey, the desert of California, Maine, and most recently, Pennsylvania.  During most of this time, the urge to write kept rearing its head, and Cyn kept saying, “Down, down!”

Finally, she could stand it no longer and wrote a new book, which nabbed her an agent!  But the book didn’t sell.  Afterwards, she wrote a couple more books, and finally got the call that FAIRY TALE had sold on November 1, 2007 (at 3:21 pm, not like it was a big deal in her life or anything) to Delacorte in a pre-empt!  Since then, she’s sold two more books, SLEEPLESS for 2010 and another book to be released in 2011.  As much as she tried to resist it, writing has always been the thing that has made Cyn happiest, and so now she is thrilled to be able to share her books with an audience (who isn’t related to her by blood).

She is represented by Jim McCarthy at Dystel & Goderich.  If you have a matter that’s “businessy” please contact him; she’s a goofball when it comes to that stuff.

You can find Cyn at:
http://cyn2write.livejournal.com/
http://cynbalog.com/

Click on the book cover to read the review of FAIRY TALE I posted on December 13, 2008.