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My life in 8 words: "Doors open, doors close. Doors close, doors open."
Nova Ren Suma Revealed
Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. What if?
Q. What is your greatest achievement?
A. Each new success in my writing career feels like the one, but really it has nothing at all to do with writing. I found my one true love when we were both very young, and that's still the best thing that's ever happened in my life.
Q. What’s your greatest flaw?
A. It's a tie. I have great skill in negativity—I can make even the most exciting opportunity seem like a downer. And I'm also easily distracted—to the point where I have to physically remove myself from my apartment, which contains the television, in order to write.
Q. What is your biggest pet peeve?
A. Arrogance.
Q. What’s your best quality?
A. I am incapable of giving up. I've been trying to be a writer for years—first for adults and now for younger readers. It hasn't been easy, and I remember flirting with the idea of giving up for good a few times. The thing is, I always knew deep down that I wouldn't. I could never give up; I just don't have it in me.
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Authors on the Web
Suite101.com, January 31, 2010
...Summery and Review of Nova Ren Suma's Debut Mystery Novel for Tweens Life is not a movie - or is it? Meet Dani Callanzano, teenage film noir fan turned sleuth, who learns more than...
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed, June 8, 2010
...no matter where I am--I need to feel like I've vanished and no one can find me." Nova Ren Suma , author of Dani Noir (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, 2009) and Imaginary Girls (Dutton, summer 2011): "I live in a tiny apartment in New York and can sometimes be...
distraction no. 99, June 5, 2010
...Bliss http://bluemosaicme.blogspot.com/ Jennifer Derilo posted at http://czilka.wordpress.com/ Alexander Chee http://koreanish.com/ Nova Ren Suma = ME!(The image of the red curtain isn't mine. Photo by Emily Searle, borrowed for this post courtesy of...
Latest Activity on Book Blogs, January 6, 2010
...Current Tours 1 Reply We currently have tours for: The Espressologist by Kristina Springler Dani Noir by Nova Ren Suma Out of the Pumpkin Shell by Nancy Werking How Not to Make a Wish by Mindy Klasky If you are inter… Started by Kate. Last reply...
Abby (the) Librarian, December 16, 2009
...Dani Noir by Nova Ren Suma. Grades 4-8. Aladdin, September 2009. Review copy provided by publisher for Cybils consideration. (This book is a Cybils nominee and my review reflects only my opinion, not necessarily...
Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog, November 19, 2009
...more hilarious, because two such silly people just can't help being funny. And, there are hand puppets. Nova Ren Suma at Shelf Elf made me excited for a book I hadn't yet heard of, and Ann Marie Flemming at was just phenomenal -- an unusual use of...
dragon's cave, September 28, 2009
...the grid, baby! Seriously, by the time I'm 45), then to pick up my reserved copy of Nova Ren Suma's new teen novel, Dani Noir . You go, Nova! I restrain my jealousy toward the many people I know who have published before me. Especially the ones who...
Culturebot, September 21, 2009
...Name: Nova Ren Suma Title/Occupation: fiction writer, author of DANI NOIR ( http://daninoir.com ) Organization/Company: self URL: http://novaren.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up...
