About Jessica L Padilla
Jessica L. Padilla lives in eastern Iowa. In her spare time she enjoys reading, writing, hiking, painting, baking and watching movies. She is addicted to french fries, mountain dew, gummy bears and loves animals, zombies and the smell of cinnamon. She has wanted to be a writer since she was 9 years old after reading Edgar Allen Poe for the first time and her first published short story was a guide to surviving a zombie apocalypse in her college literary magazine. Blood Origins (A Black Novel, Book #1) is her first full length Young Adult novel and will be available August 21, 2013.