It stokes creativity and similar to the cover writing exercise that Cooney did in middle school, get young people interested and familiar with creative writing! When not writing, she enjoys playing piano for musicals at the local schools and volunteering at the hospital. During these visits, she plays a plotting game with the students where they work together to create story plots. She quickly began penning novels, finding out quickly that she loved writing suspense novels and enjoyed that you could always count on some action within a book set in that genre.Ĭooney visits local schools to keep her stories realistic by learning more about teenagers so she can write better books. they started doing quite well, and Cooney was able to sell stories to publications such as Seventeen magazine. She has been writing books for the young adult genre ever since her children were young. She says that she started writing then and has not stopped since! Born May 10, 1947, in Geneva New York, she has wanted to be a writer ever since the sixth grade, One of her teachers would rip off The New Yorker covers and pass them around, having students write a short story on the cover that they received. Cooney is an American author of fiction novels.
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