Denise Jaden is, or has been, everything from a professional Polynesian dancer and fitness competitor to a mushroom farmer and church secretary. Most of her time now is spent homeschooling or playing with her young son (also a fast-drafter of fiction) or in front of her computer writing.The first draft of Denise's debut novel for teens, LOSING FAITH, was written in twenty-one days during NaNoWriMo 2007. It was released from Simon & Schuster in September 2010, with her next one, NEVER ENOUGH, out in summer 2012. A companion anthology, NEVER ENOUGH STORIES, is available as a free ebook at various online book outlets. Her other fiction includes FOREIGN EXCHANGE (an editor's pick from Evernight Teen), and a story in the anthology FALLING FOR ALICE. Look for upcoming YA novels A CHRISTMAS KERRIL (Oct. 2015) and AVALANCHE (Leap Books, Spring 2016).Her first non-fiction work, WRITING WITH A HEAVY HEART: USING GRIEF AND LOSS TO STRETCH YOUR FICTION, is available online wherever books are sold, and her second book for writers, FAST FICTION, was released from New World Library in 2014. Denise lives just outside Vancouver, Canada with her husband and son.