ABOUT VANESSA
née, Toodles
Vanessa spent the oughts bouncing between the coasts, from Brooklyn to Seattle, with stops in Arkansas, Virginia, and Colorado, before landing in Austin, Texas. She lives with her Ron Swanson-esque husband, paper craft-obsessed daughter, and cats Mei Mei: the feline gargoyle, and Sweetums, an endlessly sweet creature who never met a forbidden surface she couldn't explore.
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When not writing, Vanessa enjoys reading, championing her favorite audiobooks, admission-free hours at Barton Springs, and working out before dawn.
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Her first novel, A CERTAIN APPEAL, released from Putnam Books in 2021. A retelling of Pride and Prejudice, the novel is a romcom with actual "com," and love letter to the sparkling world of NYC burlesque.
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FUN FACT: Vanessa writes in the first person, so this has been SUPER weird for her.