Kimberly Karalius

KAROLE COZZO is a school psychologist by day, a wife and mother of two by night, and a writer of YA romance in the wee hours of the morning. She loves camping out at Starbucks, breakfast cereal at all hours, and watching every movie made from her favorite YA books. How to Say "I Love You" Out Loud is her debut novel. TEMPLE WEST was born in Phoenix, raised in Seattle, and educated in LA. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cinematic Production. She likes to describe herself as a nerdster (70% nerd, 30% blue-haired hipster), and spends too much time on Twitter as @ByTempleWest, where she mostly re-posts Doctor Who and Firefly crossover memes while writing punny things about being a YA paranormal romance author/hermit. Temple currently lives in Seattle, WA.
templewest.blogspot.com KIMBERLY KARALIUS holds an MFA in fiction from the University of South Florida, and has been sharing stories on Figment.com with a strong following of enthusiastic readers since the site's conception. Although Kimberly lives in sunny Florida, she prefers to stay indoors and sometimes buys a scarf in the hopes of snow. She loves watching really old cartoons and silent films and can boast that she's seen everything Buster Keaton has appeared in. Being in Florida certainly has one big perk: going to Disney World. Which she does. Frequently. Love Fortunes and Other Disasters is her debut novel.