13 things author Jessica Gruner wants you to know: 1. Jessica frequently has close encounters with hummingbirds. At times, she suspects she may be a hummingbird. 2. She wrote a book about rocks when she was like five or so. In it, she speculated that there might be more than one thousand rocks in the world. No, not types of rocks. Individual rocks. 3. She has two of the largest, funniest, snuggliest, most symmetrical cats on earth: a chubby tabby named Damo Jerusalem of Whitney and an all-white cat named Miles Lavender Chan-Chan of Cotton. Emily has a cat named after him . . . . 4. Jessica also has several pet chickens named after Battlestar Galactica characters. 5. Like Emily, Jessica is a chronic over-punctuator!!!!!! 6. Jessica has obsessive tendencies and is very thankful that they don't (currently) interfere with her life. 7. It's a shame that her obsessive tendencies don't involve obsessively cleaning the house. She lives in semi-pestilence until right before the guests arrive. 8. Jessica and Emily agree on good music (Black Sabbath, the Stooges, Miles Davis, the New York Dolls, Jimi Hendrix, the Cramps, the Misfits . . .) and bad music (Hoopy Jankers and the Goodtime Belly Bouncers). 9. Jessica thinks the best songs to sing at karaoke are "Urgent," "I Feel the Earth Move," "Brand New Key," and "Hell Bent for Leather." 10. The other books she's working on are about A) triplets and the end of the world, B) a snow planet, and C) an office building that has its own lymphatic system. 11. She taught high school English for four years in San Francisco. 12. And was the teacher most likely to be dressed all in black. 13. If Jessica had Emily's inventing skills, she'd already own the patent on duplication, invisibility, perpetual motion, time travel, and teleportation devices!!!! Bwuahh hahha hahhahhah!