The Other Side (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781440449062)

Jen Steffen is a stay-at-home mom with two precocious children that fuel her imagination and often try her patience. Due to a large gap in understanding, she dropped out of college thinking it was the experience that mattered. That being the case, she took on any job that came her way, beginning with the position of research assistant. She has since been a photo clerk, a cleaning lady, a bartender/waitress, a pizza delivery driver, a personal care attendant, a retail sales associate, a sandwich maker in a coffee shop, and an administrative assistant for a home health care company. She now proudly counts herself among America's currently unemployed, hoping this experience too will someday lead to a story. She began writing in middle school with an under-appreciated illustrated story about a light bulb that wouldn't light. She wrote a short novel in high school as well as several short stories, and got entirely too interested in writing as a profession. She now lives with her husband and two children, a cat that most people think is a figment of the author's imagination, and a fish. When not writing, she can usually be found with a book in her hands or a controller, as she is quite a gamer.