While writing the novel, Blundell kept lessons she had learned as a children’s book and young adult author in mind. Unlike with her children’s books, which she outlines meticulously, Blundell wrote The High Season loosely, “following the story through” for the first draft and revising the work many times. I just have to finish it-the story hasn’t let me go.’ ” Blundell took a year off her job to follow her intuition and finish the novel. “I thought, ‘I really have to write this adult book. When her friend said to her that her job as a writer was to be in love with her material, Blundell knew she had to take a leap. She called up a writer friend for advice. When Blundell landed on the right setting-Orient, a town on the end of the North Fork of Long Island known as the “un-Hamptons,” whose population nevertheless increases substantially over the summer-her first published novel for adults, The High Season, started to take shape.įor years, though, Blundell relegated the project to “the margins” of her professional life, until one day she paused before signing a contract to write her next children’s book.

It was about a separated middle-aged couple trying to maintain their friendship by “papering over the fault lines in their marriage” and the introduction of a girlfriend who could solve all the financial and practical problems the couple were facing, as Blundell explains over the phone. In 2013 she made The New York Times Best Seller List for her title Nowhere to Run.In the middle of a thriving career writing adventure stories and historical novels for children, Judy Blundell found herself captivated by a story for adults she had begun sketching out on the side. She won the annual National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2008 for the young-adult novel What I Saw and How I Lied, published under her real name by Scholastic Books. Her other books include the romance series Brides of Wildcat County, the parapsychic science fictions Premonitions and Disappearance, and three books in the 39 Clues mystery adventure series. Burkett in the Star Wars: Science Adventures series. Beside the journals of Princess Leia, Queen Amidala (1999), and Darth Maul (1999), Watson is the author of three series that comprise about forty books: Jedi Apprentice (except for the first book), Jedi Quest, and The Last of the Jedi. Her debut came when LucasBooks recruited her to write the Star Wars Journal Captive to Evil by Princess Leia Organa, published by Scholastic in 1998. Writing for the Star Wars franchise she works with editors from LucasBooks as well as Scholastic.

Jude Watson is primarily known as the author of Star Wars books.

Judy Blundell, pseudonym Jude Watson, is an American author of books for middle grade, young adult, and adult readers.

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