Julie Kagawa Focusing on the young adult fiction demographic, Julie Kagawa has become the successful author of a number of contemporary and urban fantasy novels. Currently living in Kentucky, she has a movie optioned based on her vampire series ‘Blood of Eden’. Early and Personal Life Julie Kagawa was born on October the 12th 1982 and has become well regarded for her fantasy novels and various young adult book series. Currently residing in Louisville, Kentucky she was initially born in Sacramento, California followed by a brief period living in Hawaii at nine years of age. Writing and swimming from early on, she ended up pursuing literature with a passion as she found herself coming back to it time and time again. Even as a child this was her one true love as she was said to continually be found reading and writing, regardless of everything else. Over the years she found herself working in various different bookshops in order to make ends meet. During her time though she’d, more often than not, be reading the books which all helped provide her with the inspiration required for her own work. This became problematic though when employers didn’t appreciate her continually reading whilst working, so she became a dog-trainer instead. It was in 2010 that she had her first book published; ‘The Iron King’, which was to then see the commencement of the ‘The Iron Fey’ series of novels. She is now happily married as well as owning a number of different pets. Writing Career With over twelve books currently released, Julie Kagawa has had a successful writing career so far, which shows no sign of stopping. Penning her first novel in 2010 with ‘The Iron King’, she begun her initial book series ‘The Iron Fey’. In 2012 she started a spin-off series from this called ‘The Call of the Forgotten Trilogy’ with the third book still due to be published. One of her most popular series of books though is her ‘Blood of Eden’ series which features a collection of novels set within a dystopian vampire run society. The first novel to come out in ‘Blood of Eden’ was called ‘The Immortal Rules’ and was published in 2012. Featuring the adventures of Allison Sekemoto, a teenage girl living in this vampire run world, they follow her progress as she tries to survive in a nightmarish future society. This formula has proven to be successful within the young adult genre and there’s now a film in the pipeline, as the rights have been secured by Palomar Pictures. Winning awards and positive reviews as well, they show no signs of stopping soon, as the series looks set on continuing into the future.

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(Julie Kagawa (born October 12, 1982) is an American author, best known for writing the Iron Fey series consisting of four books: The Iron King, The Iron Daughter, The Iron Queen, and The Iron Knight. She was born in Sacramento, California, but moved to Hawaii with her family at the age of nine. Kagawa is of Japanese descent. She currently lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Genre: Young adult fiction ; Literary movement: Contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, and fantasy of manners)