Crystal Velasquez is the author of Just Princesses, the Hunters of Chaos series, the Your Life, But... series (Your Life, But Better; Your Life, But Cooler; and Your Life, But Sweeter) and four books in the Maya & Miguel series--My Twin Brother/My Twin Sister, Neighborhood Friends, The Valentine Machine, and Paint the Town. She holds a bachelor's degree in creative writing from Pennsylvania State University and is a graduate of the New York University Summer Publishing Institute. Currently an editor at Working Partners Ltd. and a freelance proofreader, she lives, writes, and obsessively takes personality quizzes in Flushing, Queens, in New York City. She is at work on her next book for tweens.