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Lily Sparks

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Born in Norwalk Connecticut, started my career in Los Angeles. Hid out in the mountains for a while, now I'm setting down roots by the beach.

I've had a million odd jobs, including:

character designer
screenwriter
soap salesman
footage archivist
Arts & Crafts counselor
award show production assistant
product designer
auction house intake co-ordinator
trader joe's chip section leader
Microsoft content writer
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Telling stories is what I do to be happy and help make sense of the world.

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Dear Mrs. Sparks, I just finished reading Teen Killers Club and I absolutely love it. I wanted to ask you if there will be a 2nd book? If yes, when will it be released and, if you can say, what will be the title? If I am not mistaken when someone asked you that question before you did say the title will be 'Tenn Killers Club II: HIDE +SEEK. Did it change? Sorry I am not caught up.

Lily Sparks Hello!!! Thank you for this question & for loving the book.
There IS a sequel, it will be out 8/9/22, and it's called...

TEEN KILLERS IN LOVE!
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There IS a sequel, it will be out 8/9/22, and it's called...

TEEN KILLERS IN LOVE!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

It's available on Netgalley now & starting to rack up reviews!

& In very exciting news it is getting a third an final book.

I sold the second book as "Teen Killers 2 Hide + Seek" but as a book moves along the publishing journey lots of things change and one of those things is usually the title. I am always in favor of a shorter title & this one is very to the point.

Thanks for asking a question & I hope you add TKIL to your TBR pile :D
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Hi Mrs. Sparks! First, I want to say that "Teen Killers Club" is one of my favorite books I've ever read due to your unique writing style and lovable characters. The second thing was what's your writing process? Do you do a lot of research or do a lot of planning before writing? I thought I would ask because I respect you as a writer. I often have trouble as a beginning writer with the writing process.

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And what a compliment. Nothing makes me happier than when people enjoy Teen Killers Club. Of all my writing its my…more
Thank you so much for this question!
And what a compliment. Nothing makes me happier than when people enjoy Teen Killers Club. Of all my writing its my most personal & heartfelt & people who get it are my people.
My process starts with a really detailed outline. I break the story in a broad arc and then break down what happens in every single chapter.

However in the actual writing, once my characters are solid, I sort of set them down and see what they do. This is my favorite part of writing, I really feel like a camera following the characters around and recording what happens, and so often they surprise me. I give my characters total permission to re-write the story according to what they truly are and this usually lands me in a place more organic than what I've planned.

For example, [spoiler] in my first outline of Teen Killers Club, Erik was the big bad and Signal had to kill him in the Star Barn at the end to protect Javier. But then in the writing, Erik kept making the case for why he was not such a bad guy after all, and in listening to him the theme of the book and the series became much clearer.

Hope this is helpful. Everyone has their own different way they write and whatever gives you the most happiness per minute is the way to follow.(less)

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THE MERCILESS KING OF MOORE HIGH

My next book, The Merciless King of Moore High is now available on Netgalley

When all the adults in tiny Brockton, Connecticut morph into monsters overnight, the teens barricade themselves in their high schools. They turn them into castles and develop different societies.

Hard-partying Moore builds a neo-feudal society where everyone goes out and slays the "dragons" together.

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Lily Sparks said: " I am not going to lie. I went a little wild with this one. No regrets!

Thank you for coming with me on this ride. And if you've enjoyed the Teen Killers series please check out my next book, THE MERCILESS KING OF MOORE HIGH.
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“What can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished? The hard reality is, surely, that for the likes of you and I, there is little choice other than to leave our fate, ultimately, in the hands of those great gentlemen at the hub of this world who employ our services. What is the point in worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one’s life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that is in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.”
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