JJ Elliott is an advertising copywriter with a degree in English from UCLA. She lost her mother to suicide as a teenager and spent over two years in her 20s volunteering on the suicide hotlines in LA. One of the reasons she wanted to write this book is because she finds herself increasingly frustrated by the way suicide is treated in print and on-screen, as a mystery to be solved instead of a multi-layered, complex condition that can rarely be boiled down to one specific “reason.”

A native of Northern California, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two teenage children. She loves to read, play tennis, drink wine and eat cheese. THERE ARE NO RULES FOR THIS is her first novel.

JJ Elliott