N.E. Bode

N.E. Bode is the pen name of author Julianna Baggott.I was asked by HarperCollins – my fair publishers! – to write a paragraph summarizing myself. This is hard to do. There was a word maximum. I had to be brief. I'll cut and paste it here so I don't have to write it twice, but I should say it just didn't capture my essence. But for what it's worth, it went like this: "N.E. Bode, unsuspecting creative genius, had a horrible childhood and survived by his wits. A graduate of the prestigious Alton School for the Remarkably Giftless and a near-graduate of Northsouthern Perth Amboy Community College, he has been fired, with only a tiny bit of warrant, from every job he's ever had. He is alone in the world, and having offended the fine tastes of his writing professor – an extremely well-honored writer – he now lives in fear of being chased down and harmed by the crazed man. Bode occasionally works as a side-show age-guesser to earn extra income (you, hmmm, are eighty-two years of age) to support his habit of eating the delicacy Swedish fish, but perhaps this is too personal."