My name is Megan Morrison, and I’m an author. I’m also a mom and a middle-school teacher. I spend my time having adventures with my husband and little boy, teaching drama and language arts to 7th and 8th graders, and writing fairy tales set in the world of Tyme.

 

When I’m not at work on something or other, my favorite thing in the whole wide world to do is to get lost in stories. I love to read books. I also love television, movies, and video games – anything that has a great story with compelling characters. When a story is really alive, I just want to live there, and I’ve been known to get pretty obsessed. My most public obsession (the one that inspired me to co-found a web site and write thousands of pages of fan fiction) is with Harry Potter, but I’m also a huge, dress-up-in-costumes-and-scream-a-lot level fan of Jane Austen, Star Wars, Firefly, and BioWare’s role-playing games.

 

Ten true things about me: I’m the oldest of three children; I drink a shocking amount of coffee; I once met J.K. Rowling at a party, and she kissed my cheek; I’ve been deep-sea fishing in Alaska; I was the captain of my high school’s varsity volleyball team; I was once on an episode of the game show Teen Pictionary; I’ve toured with a professional children’s theatre company and performed Off-Broadway; I have eaten bear; I used to be a competitive Irish dancer; and I took karate for a few years, mostly so that I could feel more like a Jedi.

 

Grounded: The Adventures of Rapunzel is my debut novel and the first book in the Tyme series. Tyme is a fantasy world that I co-created with my dear friend, Ruth Virkus, whom I met when I was publicly obsessing about Harry Potter. Ruth and I have been planning the Tyme series together since 2003, and we’re so excited to be sharing it with readers at last.

 

Visit her website at: http://meganmorrison.net

Follow her on Twitter: @megtyme

Megan Morrison