Since that time she has come to love novels about girls who have superpowers and has a huge collection of manga movies. Emily’s first novel was a clumsily written comic book that had terrible art and tons of historical inaccuracies that she still has in her drawer to this day. Her love for superheroines goes to when she was a middle schooler obsessed with Sailor Moon that used to air on Cartoon Network. Lloyd-Jones was always interested in writing since she was a child. As a published author, she has presented at the Mendocino Writing Conference, taught pitching skills and provided advice at bookseller panels. This would come in handy as she knows what type of books readers buy, what booksellers are looking to sell, how to run a teen book club, how to run a pre-order campaign and how to write an effective newsletter. She was charged with trawling through thousands of new titles from which she would then select the best ones the bookshop would stock.

After graduating from college, she went on to become a children’s buyer and bookseller for an independent bookshop. She has also written several single standing novels including “The Hearts We Sold” and “The Bone Houses.” Lloyd-Jones has asserted that she always loved anything to do with books which is why she chose to study and have a career in publishing. She published her first novel “Illusive” in the “Illusive” series in 2014. She would then study for an MA in publishing at Rosemont College. She went to Western Oregon University, from where she graduated with a bachelor’s in English. She grew up in rural Oregon, on a vineyard and remembers playing on green forests and meadows where sheep grazed.

Emily Lloyd-Jones is an American young adult fantasy author from Oregon.

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