She realized that one of the most powerful figures in the fairy godmother was portrayed as a rather incompetent and silly character. Since she has always been such a nerd, she decided to pen her thesis on how women were portrayed in animated movies.Īs she was rewatching some of her favorite animated movies more critically, she had some startling realizations. When she finally realized that film production was not a guarantee of steady work, she decided she needed to pursue her dreams of fiction writing which had taken a backseat.Įlissa Sussman owes her idea for her debut novel Stray to Disney’s Cinderella and a feminist history course. This would lead her to become a production manager for animated movies while writing became a distant thought. However, she never imagined herself as an author, and hence when she graduated she decided to find what she deemed a more steady job. She would continue writing stories in high school that she shared with friends and when she went to college, she loved taking fiction classes. Soon enough, Elissa began writing some terrible poetry and Hannukah plays in addition to gritty short stories and romantic novellas. It was at this time that she came to understand that a writer was a person that got their title from writing books. Similar to most of her contemporaries, she used to be a child with a huge imagination and an even bigger obsession with books.Īs a twelve-year-old, she had read Anne Frank’s “The Diary of Anne Frank” and began keeping her journal. Sussman currently makes her home in Los Angeles where she lives with her boyfriend and Basil their rescue dog.Īs for how he started writing, Sussman has said that he has always been a scribbler that kept journals ever since she was in elementary school.
This was when she decided to pen her own and was surprised at how big “Funny You Should Ask” became. When there was a lull in the popularity of romance novels, she decided to ghostwrite some adult romance and found it a lot of fun. Since she had always been a reader of romance fiction, it just seemed like a natural progression from young adult works. As such, she has been credited in many blockbuster works that include Tangled, The Croods, The Princess and the Frog, and Hotel Transylvania.Įlissa published “Stray” her debut novel in 2014 before penning her breakout young adult novel “Funny You Should Ask” in 2022. Earlier on, she went to Sarah Lawrence College where she earned her bachelor’s degree.īefore she became a bestselling author she was skilled at organizing spreadsheets and managing animators at some of the best animation studios in the United States.ĭuring her stint, she worked for the likes of Sony Imageworks, Nickelodeon, Dreamworks, and Disney. Elissa Sussman is a young adult romance and general romance author from Los Angeles that is best known for the “Stray” series of novels.
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