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Background

Ostow was born in New York City to a Jewish-American father and a Puerto Rican mother. Or writing funny stories for early readers. I received my MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and can often be found teaching workshops in writing for young readers.

She lives and works in New York City with her Emmy award-winning filmmaker husband, Noah Harlan.

Works

Micol Ostow

The Day Before (Riverdale #1)
3.25 avg rating — 5,633 ratings — published 2018 — 39 editions
Get Out of Town (Riverdale #2)
3.43 avg rating — 2,167 ratings — published 2019 — 35 editions
30 Guys in 30 Days
3.56 avg rating — 1,996 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions
The Edge of Great
3.76 avg rating — 1,617 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions
Mean Girls
3.87 avg rating — 1,439 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions
Amity
3.31 avg rating — 1,550 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions
Lights, Camera...

Even though she was raised in the Jewish faith (her mother, who was a Catholic, converted before she married her father), she always maintained a good relationship and remained close to her Puerto Rican Catholic family. She has also been the ghostwriter for novelizations of television series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed and Fearless. Welcome to all things me!

Or drinking too much coffee and spending too much time taking photos of my dog. 

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Micol Ostow

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Micol Ostow is an American author, editor and educator who has written more than 40 published works. These days I'm usually writing creepy stories for older teens.

(Nancy Drew: Girl Detective, #5)

3.80 avg rating — 1,253 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions
Westminster Abby
3.40 avg rating — 1,280 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions
The Maple Murders (Riverdale, #3)
3.37 avg rating — 1,252 ratings — published 2019 — 18 editions
Gettin’ Lucky
3.60 avg rating — 1,114 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions

Micol Ostow

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The experience of seeing how easily the family banded together, despite the fact that some of them had never even met before, served as an inspirational factor when she wrote her first novel Ostow, who has written as a ghostwriter for novelizations of popular television series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, and Fearless, some published under house pseudonyms, began to author young-adult novels.

Ostow took a Media Bistro"s YA (Young Adult) Writing Course.

During the course she wrote the pitch and the first ten pages of the manuscript in her class.

She sold it before the semester ended.

The book is about a Jewish girl from the suburbs of New New York Even though Emily wants nothing to do with her Puerto Rican heritage a very special person shows her that uncovering her roots is like discovering a secret part of her own heart.

After spending the first eight years of her career as an editor, Ostow decided to become a freelance writer

She is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts (Master of Fine Arts) degree in writing for children and young adults through Vermont College of Fine Arts.

I've been working in publishing for ages and ages. I was a children's book editor for nearly a decade, and began writing professionally in 2004.

Education

After Ostow graduated from college, she was hired by the New York City publisher Simon & Schuster, as an editors

Career

Her first original hardcover novel,, was named a "New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age".

micol ostow biography

The Media Bistro"s YA (Young Adult) Writing Course instructor, Kristen Kemp was looking for someone to continue her work as an instructor and Ostow, who is a full-time freelance accepted the job. Since then I've written over 50 published works, including critically-acclaimed original fiction, novelty formats for younger readers, and bestselling commercial novels for teens and tweens.