Touched

Cyn Balog is an American author. She was born in Edison, New Jersey.  She went to Woodbrook Elementary, Woodrow Wilson, and J.P. Stevens High school. She spent most of her time at the desk in her bedroom, creating stories.  

During her summers, Cyn spent most of her time working at the Jersey Shore.  She would also write a lot, and wrote her first young adult novel when she was 15.  She worked at the Park Bakery in Seaside Park, as a waitress who could whip up a mean funnel cake and egg cream, as a cashier the A&P until she finally got her dream job of badge checker on the 7th Avenue beach.  The job was great and allowed for lots of writing and reading time!

She went to Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.  Douglass College is an all-women school, or so they say, but that’s really a crock because all your classes are with the other Rutgers men.  Not that she minded Rutgers Men very much.  In fact, she married one.

After college, she immediately set out to look for another job that wouldn’t mess with her tan lines.  She had a degree in Communication.  She nailed a altogether pathetic job making minimum wage at a newspaper. Since then, she’s worked for a shrinkwrapping company, an insurance company, a bank, a promotional products company, and a magazine.  She’s lived in Jersey, the desert of California, Maine, and most recently, Pennsylvania.  During most of this time, the urge to write kept rearing its head, and Cyn kept saying, “Down, down!”

Finally, she could stand it no longer and wrote a new book, which nabbed her an agent!  But the book didn’t sell.  Afterwards, she wrote a couple more books, and finally got the call that Fairy Tale had sold on November 1, 2007 (at 3:21 pm, not like it was a big deal in her life or anything) to Delacorte in a pre-empt!  Since then, she’s sold three more books, Sleepless for 2010 and another two books to be released in 2011 and 2012.  As much as she tried to resist it, writing has always been the thing that has made Cyn happiest, and so now she is thrilled to be able to share her books with an audience (that isn’t related to her by blood).