Author Event and Book Launch Party! - Nancy Werlin

Bestsellers Cafe is proud to host Nancy Werlin for the book launch of her latest YA fiction, "Unthinkable"!

Nancy Werlin grew up in Peabody, Massachusetts, USA. She decided to become a writer in the fourth grade when she realized that her beloved novels didn't appear by magic—there were actual, real, living people whose job it was to write books. 

Nancy's first novel, "Are You Alone on Purpose", surprised her by being realistic young adult (YA) fiction. Her second novel, "The Killer's Cousin", shocked her more by being a YA suspense thriller, and it won the Edgar award. Her suspense fiction has been praised by Sarah Weinman: “The same depth and punch as Ruth Rendell and Minette Walters… simply one of the best crime novelists going right now. Period.”

Nancy returned to realistic YA fiction with her sixth book, the National Book award finalist "The Rules of Survival", and then moved to fantasy with "Impossible". She's followed that up with two more fantasies, "Extraordinary" and "Unthinkable" (a sequel to "Impossible").

She says, “I like writing about young characters in deep trouble and lots of pain, who are pushed into a transformative experience. I think this is why, regardless of genre, everything I write is always also YA.” Her books have been translated into Danish, German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, French, Korean, Russian, Polish, and Turkish.

Nancy has served as chair of the judging panel for the National Book Awards in Young People's Literature, and is currently serving as a judge in the YA category for the Edgar awards.

From time to time, Nancy also teaches the writing of fiction. For fun, she makes comics, which she publishers on her Tumblr.