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Lizabeth Zindel grew up in a literary family that included father Paul Zindel, a former high school chemistry teacher who became a Pulitzer Prize—winning playwright and young adult author. Shortly thereafter he was launched, with the help of Charlotte Zolotow, on a career of writing for young adults. He also began a family, marrying the novelist Bonnie Hildebrand in For his daughter, now 30 years old, writing came naturally, she says.

On her Web site there is a picture of her penning her own work at age five. Ultimately, she majored in English and theater at Wesleyan.

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Now she has published her first novel: Girl of the Moment Viking , about Lily, who is hired as an intern for a talented—but highly demanding—young actress, Sabrina Snow. Zindel says writing makes her feel close to her father, who died in He taught her how to find characters. I think I inherited that from him. After college, Zindel moved to Los Angeles, where she worked a series of assistant jobs at such companies as Creative Artists Agency and Maverick Records, which is how the idea of her novel was born.

At one job, she remembers being excited when she was given a BlackBerry, which she quickly realized was actually a short leash. Even a subplot involving Lily's relationship with a depressed fan who writes to Sabrina was inspired by Zindel's own experience reading fan mail. Hollywood also taught Zindel how to pitch. She then overnighted her pages to the agents who expressed interest and got a message from Stephanie Lehmann at the Elaine Koster Literary Agency the next day, saying she wanted to represent her.

Lehmann soon sold it to Viking in a three-book deal.