She finds that she is transfixed while she creates a fantasy world’s walls and the heroes that make up the world with her laptop’s keys. She finds writing to be a kind of sanctuary for a soul that is solitary, as it is a chance to leave this life here and tell someone else’s story. Before being given detention, the principal even gave her a compliment. It was not until she was in the fourth grade when she wrote a retribution poem to the bully in the class for ripping out pages of her math book. Zweig (who was Adrienne’s third grade teacher) is the first person to tell Adrienne that she was a writer. Publication was not even something she dared to try until some years later a time that she worked on many projects, and got rejected a lot before selling a book. It was not until she was about 24 years old that she tried doing something about that dream, which is one she never really let go of. It was in the fourth grade that she stared at a book in the library and imagined that it was her name on it. She has enjoyed writing since elementary school and had some awesome teachers that encouraged her at it. She is enraptured by our connection with that which is around us and each other as well as the human spirit.Īdrienne loves all kinds of books, some of which include: “Harry Potter”, “Six of Crows”, “Little Women”, and “The Glass Castle”. She is someone that enjoys learning, as well, and will buy any book about art history she can find. During the time she is not writing, she will be at antique fairs (to find old books), sipping wine during long dinners, on her yoga mat, or at art museums that she likes the most. Adrienne finds that she is obsessed with the past, and that obsession has found its way into her work and influenced it. She loves food, as well as history, has a shameless coffee addiction, and loves to travel. She lives with her four kids and her husband (who makes documentary films, and together, they all take in the rays of the California sun). She was born and raised in the state of Texas and became a California girl. It was named one of the most anticipated young adult books of the year 2018. Author Adrienne Young writes novels from the genre of young adult fantasy, whose debut novel, called “Sky in the Deep” was released in the year 2018.

Sky in the deep