She’s lived in Jersey, the desert of California, Maine, and most recently, Pennsylvania. Since then, she’s worked for a shrinkwrapping company, an insurance company, a bank, a promotional products company, and a magazine. She nailed a altogether pathetic job making minimum wage at a newspaper (we were in a recession! Job search = hell!). She had a degree in Communication, which is ironic considering her early inability to speak. In fact, she married one.Īfter college, she immediately set out to look for another job that wouldn’t mess with her tan lines.

Not that she minded Rutgers Men very much. Douglass College is an all-women school, or so they say, but that’s really a crock because all your classes are with the other Rutgers men. She went to Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Sadly, though, the uniforms messed up her tan lines (oh, who is she kidding, ghosts tan better than she does). The job was great and allowed for lots of writing and reading time! She worked at the Park Bakery in Seaside Park, as a waitress who could whip up a mean funnel cake and egg cream, as a cashier the A&P (where she was fired for somehow losing $250 and STILL doesn’t know what happened to that money! But… humiliating!)… until she finally got her dream job of badge checker on the 7th Avenue beach.

She would also write a lot, and wrote her first young adult novel when she was 15. Brilliance! She is still trying to get her agent to look at that one.ĭuring her summers, Cyn spent most of her time working at the Jersey Shore.

We won’t go into all those stories here, but one had a crime-solving feline. She spent most of her time at the desk in her bedroom, creating stories. She was way shy back then, opening her mouth to say a total of two or three words every year. If you did, too, don’t think you might remember her. She went to Woodbrook Elementary, Woodrow Wilson, and J.P. Visit her online at Long (Boring) Bio:Ĭyn was born in Edison, New Jersey. She lives outside Allentown, Pennsylvania with her husband and daughters. Cyn Balog is the author of 9 young adult novels: FAIRY TALE, SLEEPLESS, STARSTRUCK, TOUCHED, DEAD RIVER, UNNATURAL DEEDS, ALONE, and THAT NIGHT.

Sleepless by Cyn Balog