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Today's guest blogger is Carrie Jones, author of the fantasy novel, NEED, and its upcoming sequel, CAPTIVATE (due out in January). Below, she shares of list of fun facts you may have wanted to know about her --- and perhaps a few things you didn't!

1. I do not base my characters on me, because I want them to have less embarrassing lives than my life.

2. I am nice that way.

3. For instance, while I have stood outside a New York city hotel (that was super ritzy) with two huge bags of books in my hands and had my skirt fall ALL THE WAY DOWN right in front of the taxi line and a seven-year-old boy and his dad, I would never do that to Zara, the main character in NEED and CAPTIVATE.

4. Really, I am too nice to do that.

5. Similarly, even though I was talking to a book publisher’s publicity person at the Bar Harbor Book Festival and suddenly felt something fall out of my skirt and I just kept talking, only to step backwards and see a man’s sock on the floor, I would never do that to Issie --- also in NEED and CAPTIVATE --- because I know she would just die of humiliation.

6. I almost die of humiliation a lot, but I somehow survive. I have no idea why. I’m not sure it’s fair.

7. One of the worst, most embarrassing things that ever happened to me was in high school when I was talking to a guy I was 100 percent crushing on, and a tampon fell out of my locker right in between us. I stepped on it. No, I stomped on it really, and gasped.

8. Note: If you step on a feminine hygiene product in front of a guy you like, do not gasp and then kick it backwards so that it skitters down the hall because unless he is really super unaware, he will notice and start laughing so hard that he’ll fall over, clutching his stomach and someone will call the principal because of the commotion and then you will have to explain to the principal what happened.

9. I truly believe there are certain things a person shouldn’t have to endure.

10. Public humiliation is one of them.

11. Yes, Zara does have to deal with horrible things --- evil pixies, dead dad, stalking, nasty girls who rank on her choice of classic rock bands and love of Amnesty International --- I, as the author, solemnly swear not to ever make her skirt fall down, nor make a sock fall out of her skirt, nor make her have an embarrassing incident like the one mentioned at #7 and #8 above.

12. Maybe. ;)

-- Carrie Jones