



īrody sold the publishing rights for her first middle-grade novel, Addie Montgomery's Shortcut to Growing Up, to Delacorte Press in 2015. The genesis of the Unremembered trilogy started with a news article about a teenage girl who was the sole survivor of a plane crash, which inspired Brody to speculate reasons why she was the only survivor. She is known for her Unremembered and Disney Descendants: School of Secrets series of young adult fiction novels. īrody published her first young adult novel, The Karma Club, in April 2010. She was signed by an agent for her second novel, five years after starting her career as an author. The first novel she wrote after leaving MGM was never published after three years of submitting the completed manuscript to different agents, Brody started a new novel during the shopping period. While most of Brody's books are for teens, her first two published novels, The Fidelity Files and Love Under Cover, were women's fiction for adults. She credits Bridget Jones's Diary with reigniting her childhood passion for writing: "I was so inspired and awed by the fact that a book could take me away from my life like that." Brody sold her first novel a year and a half after quitting MGM. Her writing consists mainly of young adult fiction.īrody graduated from Smith College in 2001 with a double major in Economics and French and worked for MGM Studios as a financial analyst until 2005, when she began to develop her career as a full-time author. Jessica Brody is an American author and writing educator. Brody interviewed by Librairie Mollat in 2015
