Welcome to the Online Home of Bethany Wiggins, Author of SHIFTING

Biography

Bethany Wiggins has always been an avid reader, but not an avid student. Seriously!!! She failed ninth grade English because she read novels instead of doing her homework. In high school, she sat alone at lunch and read massive hardback fantasy novels (Tad Williams and Robert Jordan anyone?). It wasn't until the end of her senior year that the other students realized she was reading fiction--not the Bible


Seven years ago, Bethany's sister dared her to start writing an hour a day until she completed a novel.  Bethany wrote a seven-hundred page fantasy novel that she wisely let no one read--but it taught her how to write.  Since then she has completed six  more novels, each one a little better than the one before. 


The fifth book she wrote, "SHIFTING," is represented by Marlene Stringer of the Stringer Literary Agency, and will be published by Walker Books September 27 2011!!! 

(Visualize happy dance (: )



Books that Have Left an Impact:

Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene 

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

The Changeling Sea by Patricia McKillip

The Witch books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor


Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson


The Chronicles of Narnia By C. S. Lewis


The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan


Dune by Frank Herbert


The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Possession by Elana Johnson