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Jessica Warman is the author of five young adult novels with Bloomsbury Children\u2019s Books, which have all received multiple starred reviews and were shortlisted for awards such as the YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, the Texas TAYSHAS Reading List, and the Pennsylvania Young Reader\u2019s Choice Award. Her debut, Breathless, was also an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. She earned her MA in creative writing from Seton Hill University. When she isn’t writing, Jessica likes to run, read, hike, and travel.\u00a0 She lives in Florida.<\/p>\n
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Entangled\/Mayhem, 2026<\/p>\n
Jessica Warman, author of Repeat After Me<\/span>\u2015now in development for a movie with Amazon Studios\u2015returns with Drop Dead Darlings<\/span>, a darkly funny, blood-soaked thriller where a group of teens must outwit the ultimate killer: the horror story that\u2019s writing them.<\/p>\n Bookshop.org<\/a><\/p>\n B&N<\/a><\/p>\n Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_team_member name=”REPEAT AFTER ME ” image_url=”http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RepeatAfterMe-2-1.jpg” admin_label=”Person” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Entangled Teen, 2024<\/p>\n *Adapted into an upcoming feature film from Amazon MGM\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n She\u2019s about to have a serious temporal tantrum.<\/span><\/p>\n In retrospect, I probably should have passed on the ceviche.<\/p>\n It was already a weird Friday. My class is stuck on an eerily remote island for our senior trip, I\u2019m pretty sure Mr. D (\u201ccall me Max\u201d) is hiding something from us, my ex\u2013best friend turned nemesis keeps stealing my candy, and tonight\u2019s plan for my boyfriend and me to finally lose our virginity to each other is going hellishly.<\/p>\n I mean, ceviche is delicious, don\u2019t get me wrong. But a dish made from a supposedly immortal octopus should really come with a warning label.<\/p>\n Caution: consuming a telepathic sea creature of unknown origin may result in immortality, no consequences to any actions, and getting stuck in a time loop for all of eternity.<\/span><\/p>\n Now every morning I wake up, and it\u2019s the same Friday all over again. Same annoying classmates. Same island suspended in time by an evil oyster farmer with a God complex. Same outrageous candy theft. The only person I can count on to keep me from losing my grip on this new reality is Louis, my best friend who knows me better than anyone else in this world.<\/p>\n This should be a cephalopod-induced nightmare but somehow\u2015in some ridiculous way\u2015I feel like I\u2019m experiencing the extraordinary, the gift of endless opportunities to get things right. But when I wake up every morning and it\u2019s Friday again<\/span>, sometimes it feels more like a never-ending prison sentence.<\/p>\n They say some things are worse than death\u2026<\/p>\n \u2026guess I\u2019m about to find out.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bookshop.org<\/a><\/p>\n B&N<\/a><\/p>\n Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_team_member name=”THE LAST GOOD DAY OF THE YEAR” image_url=”http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TheLastGoodDayoftheYear.jpg” admin_label=”Person” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]Bloomsbury, 2015<\/p>\n A new powerful thriller from the globally-embraced author of Between.<\/span><\/p>\n Ten years ago, in the early hours of New Year\u2019s Day, seven-year-old Samantha and her next door neighbor, Remy, watched as a man broke into Sam\u2019s home and took her younger sister, Turtle, from her sleeping bag. Remy and Sam, too afraid to intervene at the time, later identified the man as Sam\u2019s sister Gretchen\u2019s much older ex-boyfriend, Steven, who was sent to prison for Turtle\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n Now, Sam\u2019s shattered family is returning to her childhood home in an effort to heal. As long-buried memories begin to surface, Sam wonders if she and Remy accurately registered everything they saw. The more they re-examine the events of that fateful night, the more questions they discover about what really happened to Turtle.<\/p>\n Master storyteller Jessica Warman keeps readers guessing in this arresting page-turner.<\/p>\n Indiebound<\/a><\/p>\n B&N<\/a><\/p>\n Amazon<\/a> Rachel and Alice are an extremely rare kind of identical twins-so identical that even their aunt and uncle, whom they’ve lived with since their parents passed away, can’t tell them apart. But the sisters are connected in a way that goes well beyond their surfaces: when one experiences pain, the other exhibits the exact same signs of distress. So when one twin mysteriously disappears, the other immediately knows something is wrong-especially when she starts experiencing serious physical traumas, despite the fact that nobody has touched her. As the search commences to find her sister, the twin left behind must rely on their intense bond to uncover the truth. But is there anyone around her she can trust, when everyone could be a suspect? And ultimately, can she even trust herself? Master storyteller Jessica Warman will keep readers guessing when everything they see-and everything they are told-suddenly becomes unreliable in this page-turning literary thriller.<\/span><\/p>\n It’s the twins’ culturally barren, dreary yet violent world – a realm of broken dreams – that resonates most in this haunting, moody, character-driven thriller.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 — Kirkus<\/span><\/p>\n Warman uses a classic suspense story as the seed of something shimmeringly poignant and cunningly enigmatic. She draws the relationship between the sisters with lush, heartbreaking intensity, offering glimpses of its growth in flashbacks….There’s mystery upon mystery here, but they’re all imbued with tenderness and tragedy, and the final, supernaturally touched puzzle is genuinely surprising and original as well as seeped in sadness.\u00a0 Ultimately, Warman seems to specialize in intimacy made urgent by grief, and it’s that as much as the thrille rplot that readers will be left rememberg.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 — BCCB, Starred Review<\/span><\/p>\n Indiebound<\/a><\/p>\n B&N<\/a><\/p>\n Amazon<\/a> Bank Street’s Best Childrens Books of 2012<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n A 2012 IRA Young Adults Selection<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n YALSA’s Best of Books of 2012<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Booklist’s Top 10 SF\/Fantasy YA Books for 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n Elizabeth Valchar\u2014pretty, popular, and rich\u2014wakes up the morning after her eighteenth birthday on the yacht where she’d been celebrating with her closest friends. A persistent thumping noise has roused her. When she goes to investigate, she finds her own drowned body is hitting the side of the boat. Liz is dead.<\/span><\/p>\n She has no memory of what happened to her, and can only observe in horror the fallout of her death. She’s also soon joined by Alex Berg, a quiet boy from her high school who was killed by a hit-and-run driver. The two keep each other company, floating in and out of memories and trying to piece together the details of what happened to each of them.<\/span><\/p>\n In her regular life, Liz was a runner. It wasn’t abnormal for her to run 8-10 miles per day. But as memories from closer to her death begin to surface, Liz finds that she’d been running much more than normal, and that she’d all but stopped eating. Liz’s mother, who died when Liz was nine, had battled with anorexia as well, and those around her worried Liz was following in her mother’s footsteps. But something more sinister was consuming Liz from the inside out. . . .<\/span><\/p>\n From critically acclaimed author Jessica Warman comes a shocking mystery, a heartbreaking character study, and ultimately a hopeful tale of redemption, love, and letting go.<\/span><\/p>\n Liz runs the gamut of strong emotion throughout this compelling backtrack of a short life punctuated by early grief, parental failings, and honest, flawed love; her journey offers insight into the effects all of these things can have on an ordinary life. It’s been a while since The Lovely Bones was in every high school backpack; this is a strong contender to take its place. \u00a0\u00a0 — Starred Review, The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books<\/span><\/p>\n The pacing is suspenseful and tense, pieces of the puzzle showing themselves at a compelling rate; the conclusion, during which all uncertainties are exposed in a chilling climax, is both tragic and satisfying. Warman seamlessly blends romance, mystery, suspense, and the supernatural in this exploration of innocence, guilt, and morality. — The Horn Book Magazine<\/span><\/p>\n Indiebound<\/a><\/p>\n B&N<\/a><\/p>\n Amazon<\/a> On the surface, Emily Meckler leads the perfect life. She has three best friends, two loving parents, and the ideal setup at the Connecticut prep school where her father is the headmaster. But Emily also suffers from devastating nightmares about fire and water, and nobody knows why. Then the enigmatic Del Sugar enters her life, and Emily is immediately swept away\u2014but her passionate relationship with Del is just the first of many things that aren’t quite what they seem in Emily’s life. As the lies she’s been told start to unravel, Emily must set out to discover the truth regarding her nightmare; on a journey that will lead her to question everything she thought she knew about love, family, and her own idyllic past.<\/span><\/p>\n This companion novel to Warman’s critically acclaimed Breathless proves that sometimes the biggest lies are told to the people you love the most.<\/span><\/p>\n Emily\u2019s unflinching, multilayered narration and realistic dialogue capture the wishes and fears that drive teens. A page-turner to the bittersweet ending.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 –Kirkus Reviews, starred review<\/span><\/p>\n Warman sensitively portrays the sibling-like tensions and intimacy of boarding-school friendships. Most memorable, though, are passages that show how painful realizations often arrive: through isolated flashes of intuition and experience that layer slowly into three-dimensional truths.”\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2014Booklist<\/span><\/p>\n Indiebound<\/a><\/p>\n B&N<\/a><\/p>\n Amazon<\/a> Nominated by ALA as a Best Book for Young Adults<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Booklist 2009 Top Ten Book in Religion & Spirituality<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Booklist 2010 Top Ten Book in Sports for Youth<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n When Katie Kitrell is shipped off to boarding school by her distant father and overbearing mother, it doesn’t take her long to become part of the It Crowd. She’s smart, she’s cute, and she’s an Olympic-bound swimmer who has a first class ticket to any Ivy League school of her choice. But what her new friends, roommate, and boyfriend don’t know is that Katie is swimming away from her past, and from her schizophrenic older brother, Will, who won’t let her go. And when he does the unthinkable, it’s all Katie can do to keep her head above water.<\/span><\/p>\n Warman\u2019s achingly realistic scenes and characters transcend clich\u00e9, and with rare, refreshing honesty and flashes of wry humor, she writes about the intimacy of boarding school, the anguish of family illness, finding a sense of self in sports and in life, and the small, mysterious, imperfect moments that add up to love in all its forms.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2014 Booklist, starred review<\/span><\/p>\n Warman treats Will\u2019s schizophrenia with stark honesty as seen through his sister\u2019s eyes\u2026.this novel provides an important look at an extremely difficult illness and its effects on a family.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013School Library Journal, starred review<\/span><\/p>\n
\n[\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_team_member name=”BEAUTIFUL LIES” image_url=”http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BeautifulLies.jpg” admin_label=”Person” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]Bloomsbury, 2012<\/p>\n
\n[\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_team_member name=”BETWEEN” image_url=”http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Between.jpg” admin_label=”Person” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]Bloomsbury, 2011<\/p>\n
\n[\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_team_member name=”WHERE THE TRUTH LIES ” image_url=”http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/WheretheTruthLies.jpg” admin_label=”Person” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]Bloomsbury, 2010<\/p>\n
\n[\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_team_member name=”BREATHLESS” image_url=”http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Breathless.jpg” admin_label=”Person” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_colors_info=”{}”]Bloomsbury, 2009<\/p>\n