She produced about twenty titles in the respective genre which include Orcas: High Seas Supermen and Air Devils. She did her stint of freelance writing for newspapers and magazines before she shifted her interest toward children’s nonfiction. As she moved to northern Nevada, in 1990, she took up her passion for writing. Although a series of tragic events followed her divorce, she survived the rise and fall of life and eventually met her second husband John Hopkins, whom she married in 1985.
She had two sons out of her first marriage, which did not last longer and she had to sell her video store business later. Afterwards, she set out to pursue journalism and enrolled herself in Crafton Hills College and UCSB.Ī twist of fate changed her career plan as she dropped out of college in order to get married and start a business. In 1973, she earned her graduation from Santa Ynez Valley Union High School. She was a keen student who had nothing but straight A’s all through high school. She received her education from a private school when she moved to Santa Ynez Valley. At the young age of nine, she published a Japanese styled poem titled Haiku in the Palm Springs Desert Sun. Encouraged by her teachers, she used to participate in every creative writing contest and won all of them.
Her earlier works included poetry mostly but it was not until 1992 that she started writing professionally. (Sept.Hopkins began writing as soon as she learned its art.
In the end, readers will be drawn into the lives of each of these struggling teens as they deal with complicated home lives, first loves, and a mostly absent mother who "wants to love them," but is too damaged to do so. Hopkins neatly creates news articles attributed to Associated Press, Variety, and other sources, clueing readers in to the fates of other characters from the first two books. Fans will recognize the author's trademark style: this is a gritty, gripping collection of free verse and concrete poems. Hunter is quick to anger and experiments with substances, too Autumn suffers from OCD and panic attacks because "things happened" when she was little and Summer bounces around to different foster homes before running away with her boyfriend. Though not raised by their mother, they are still "dealing with the fallout of choices" she made, beginning in her own teenage years, as the narrative shifts among them. The final installment of the trilogy that began with Crank and Glass examines the impact of Kristina's methamphetamine addiction on three of her children, now teens.
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