Stephanie J. Blake loves black jellybeans. She is scared of the dark. She reads lots of books. She s a terrible driver. She eats chocolate. A lot. Sometimes she has deja vu, and she likes it. Her middle name is Jane. The Marble Queen is her first book. When she s not in front of the computer, she can be found in her backyard in Colorado with her husband, their three boys, and their two dogs. If she weren t a writer, she d be a country singer. Or maybe a pastry chef. Stephanie is also a member of the Apocalypsies, a group of children s and young adult authors debuting in 2012, and Smack Dab in the Middle, a middle grade authors blog.
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Freedom Jane McKenzie isn’t good at following the rules. She’s good at getting into trouble—and playing marbles. All she wants is to enter the marble competition at the Autumn Jubilee and show the boys in the neighborhood that she’... SEE MORE