![]() “I’ve been working toward publication since 2014,” she says. It was during that period that Ortega settled on her new goal. After graduating in 2010, she went on to work for Creative Arts Agency in New York City. She spent some time as a reporter for the school paper and the Rivertowns Enterprise in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., where she covered a little bit of everything, including human interest stories and local politics. Ortega majored in journalism at SUNY Purchase after she didn’t get into the undergrad creative writing program there. ![]() “I started writing poetry and songs about whoever I had a crush on, and that quickly moved on to short stories for my own entertainment.” ![]() ![]() “I’ve always loved to write,” Ortega says. Ortega’s first book, a YA novel about a witch who was “sort of the sloppy hero that I imagined in my head, who was a manifestation of what I was going through at the time,” didn’t sell, though it did land Ortega her first agent in 2016 and started her on the road to writing Ghost Squad. ![]()
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