Lisa Schroeder

Lisa Schroeder is an author of young adult and children’s novels best known for the “Its Raining Cupcakes” series and the “Charmed Life” series. While she attended elementary school in Salem, she loved going to the Salem Public Library where she would devour all manner of books. She would then go to Lebanon Union High School and then proceeded to study Business Administration at Oregon State University. Once she got her degree, she worked in human resources for several years before she quit to become a full-time author. She has been writing since she was a girl and she wrote and illustrated a short story named “The Lion’s Valentine” that her grandmother gave back to her more than 3 decades later. However, she did start writing seriously in 2003 and by 2005 she had sold her first picture book. However, it took a lot of rejections before she sold her first novel in 2007. She had always wanted to become an author ever since she was a child that spent all her time at the library. Books allowed her to make new friends, visit new places and feel less alone even when she was having a hard time. She wanted to write novels that connect teens and kids and have the novels do things for them that they have done for her throughout her life.