In Some Other Life by Jessica Brody has arrived! To celebrate In Some Other Life, Team Fierce Reads asked Jessica a few questions about the book and life as an author.

TEAM FIERCE READS: What makes Kennedy Fierce?
JESSICA BRODY: Kennedy is a go-getter. She's super ambitious (sometimes to her own detriment!). Some might even call her an over-achiever. But teenagers today have so much pressure put on them, and Kennedy is just dealing with that pressure the best way she can.

TFR: If you'd met Kennedy when you were a teen, would you have been friends?
JB: The answer is yes, but the real question is, would it have been a true friendship? I was an overachiever in high school just like Kennedy, which means I probably would have seen Kennedy as "competition." We might have flocked together, but would we really have been friends? I'm not sure. After Kennedy hits her head and wakes up in the parallel universe, she discovers she's a star student at the elite Windsor Academy and best friends with a girl named Sequoia (also an extremely ambitious student). I actually loosely based that friendship on some of the friendships I had in high school (obviously exaggerating it immensely!).

TFR: Describe your book in 3 words.
JB: What if...
(Ha! That's two! Told you I was an overachiever!)

TFR: What's one fun fact most people don't know about you?
JB: I'm super squeamish about belly buttons. I can't even touch my own! And if anyone even comes close to mine, they could lose an eye.

TFR: What's the strangest thing you learned while researching In Some Other Life?
JB: Okay, so this is totally random BUT... I did a lot of research on parallel universes/realities since I loosely based the "magic" in the story on multiverse theory (the theory that every choice we make essentially branches us off from our current universe, creating a brand-new universe.) In that research, I discovered this crazy conspiracy called the Berensta(e)in Bears Conspiracy. There were these old children's books called the Berenstain Bears and apparently some people in the world distinctly remember their name being spelled with an "A" Berenstain while others (myself included) will swear their name was always spelled with an "E" Berenstein. (If you search the books now, the name is spelled with an A, which just looks TOTALLY wrong to me!) The conspiracy claims that this proves that there are multiple universes, and that us "E" people have shifted into a parallel reality where the books are spelled with an "A." I told you it was random! But seriously, google it, it's crazy!