Intentionally trying to be cryptic (I mean, she is a psychic, shouldn’t she already know?), I told her that I wrote about “business.” She said, “No. I told her this, and she asked what I wrote about. I sat down and the psychic immediately said, “You’re a writer.” And I was at the time, I was a reporter. We stopped in Salem, MA, home of the witches, and while there, I decided to visit a psychic (when in Rome, right?). It was so vivid, I shared the story with my now husband, who reminded me of a vacation we had taken years earlier in New England.
But these weren’t the first novels I ever wrote.īack in 2004, I had a dream I was a young adult author, and I dreamt the concept for an entire series of books. My debut, AMOR AND SUMMER SECRETS, is a trilogy of YA contemporary Latinx romances and it came out way back in 2008 (before many of my current readers were even born). Visit: TikTok: What inspired you to start writing? She lives in the Philadelphia area with her husband, two children, and two cats. She has previously penned YA contemporary Latina novels, as well as a YA short-story collection. Diana also is featured in the anthology, Latina Authors and Their Muses (Twilight Times Books, 2015). It was the only essay chosen from the anthology by Scholastic to be used in its classroom materials. Additionally, Bustle listed Diana as one of the “Top Nine Latinx Authors to Read for Women’s History Month.” In 2011, she published a highly regarded essay in Dear Bully: 70 Authors Tell Their Stories (HarperCollins).
The first book in the series, Proof of Lies, has been optioned for film and was chosen as a finalist for the 2018 International Thriller Awards for Best Young Adult Novel. Additionally, Diana is the author of the Anastasia Phoenix Series (Entangled Publishing).
Her next YA Latinx Horror, Hatchet Girls, comes out Fall 2023 through Delacorte. Her most recent, Small Town Monsters, is a YA Latinx horror novel that published in September 2021 through Random House. Diana Rodriguez Wallach is a multi-published author of young adult novels.
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