Tiffany Brazell
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Tiffany Brazell

Science Fiction & Fantasy | Teen & Young Adult
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Since she can remember, Tiffany Brazell has always loved stories. She acted them out as she walked around the school playgrounds of Eastwood, Soldier's Settlement Matraville, and Oakhill Drive elementary schools in Sydney, Australia--a small stand of trees became a sprawling forest, and benches long balustrades surrounding a shining castle. Her father taught Marketing at The University of Sydney, and Australia was wonderful. Later, when her family moved back to America, she made new friends to include in her stories. Sometimes they were characters, other times they were listeners. She loved to take a boring story and figure out how to make it exciting. Other children gathered around to listen to why they really had fire drills and had to learn math--both of which turned out to be quite sinister. Tiffany wrote her first fantasy story in fourth grade. She had written other stories before, but there was something different about that one. It starred a group of characters living in a castle atop a high cliff overlooking a great basin. Over a great dividing mountain range, lived one of her character's wicked grandmothers who ruled the land. The girl wanted nothing more than to make friends with her grandmother and help her see the light. Okay, so the main character of the story was Bulbabee, a bulbasaur from Pokémon, who gathered his friends to find an emerald talisman that could stop the mountains from moving. But that girl and her familial struggle stayed with her. That girl wanted her own story. Tiffany's parents read to her constantly, everything from books about dinosaurs and sharks to Tolkien, from the time she was an infant. Tiffany's siblings inspired her imagination. They made up all kinds of games and worlds. One time, they could have burned the house down as she lit a toilet paper tail on fire and her brother tore around the house, close to the wool carpet, but her sapient older sister had the presence of mind to throw some cordial on him to put the fire out. Tiffany's family moved back to America when she was in elementary school. The school in that area had a mean principal, and to her, it always seemed dark. One day, Tiffany's mother received a call from the school office. "Hello Mrs. Brazell. Do you have something to tell us?" She thought for a minute, but couldn't think of anything. "Tiffany says she is going to attend a different school beginning next Monday." She only thought for a minute. "Yes, that's right, I'm so sorry I didn't call earlier." She hung up and called the other elementary school to see if she could get Tiffany in... Tiffany loved it there. The first year of Tiffany's high school career changed her life. While participating in physical education, she took two blows to her head that resulted in a traumatic brain injury. She lost the ability to read and tolerate light among other things. For six months she lay in darkness, sequestered from the world, sleeping up to sixteen hours every day while her brain healed. Many people in Tiffany's life withdrew from her, but not her family. Every time a doctor told her what she might not ever be able to do again, they supported her in saying, "Oh, yeah?" That first six months after the injury was just the beginning of a slow road forward. Tiffany went to occupational therapy to relearn how to read and remember things. She learned to drive when she was almost eighteen, and wore tinted glasses for years. Making it to maybe a full day of school per week was hard. Almost every day, however, even though it hurt her eyes, Tiffany made her way to a computer, determined to write something, even if it was just a sentence or two at a time. By the end of high school she had completed a 420,000 word novel. Painting was also a great love of hers, and she painted nearly every day. Tiffany's father saw how much she loved writing, and found a seminar that was held in Pasadena California the year she was graduating from high school, taught by Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, David Farland, Eric Flint, and Brandon Sanderson. Going to Superstars Writing Seminars reformed Tiffany's view of writing forever. She realized that she could do what she loved most as a job, if she could do it well enough. Over the next couple of years, Tiffany took writing workshops taught by David Farland, whose invaluable wisdom and willingness to work with her gave her the tools she needed to take her work to a different level. Tiffany will never forget the first time we had a one-on-one after David had read some of her "book 1." He liked the characters, loved the world... but didn't like her writing. She returned to the hotel room that night and stared at the ceiling for awhile, processing. Then, she went to the computer and started from scratch... Six months later, he began The Destroyer's Empire, Part 1. He had a look of wonder on his face as he said, "You're going to sell millions." At that point, Tiffany turned her work over to Joshua Essoe for her first big edit. Then, Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Anderson agreed to mentor her. Rebecca shared many great ideas and inspired Tiffany to develop as a writer. Tiffany loves writing, painting, animals and learning, travel, scuba diving, good food and spending time with friends.
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