Tiffany Schmidt

From Doylestown, PA. Tiffany Schmidt currently spends her time writing, following after 2 impish boys and chasing after the Pugs. She is married to a gentleman only referred to as St. Matt. Tiffany is a former teacher. Tiffany is a young adult author. Her books are profound and always contain a message where in the end; there is a form of hope. However in providing the hope it does not necessarily mean that the characters of her novels have happy endings. Schmidt is uncanny at being able to take what appears to be typical teenage problems and turn them into something for all of us regardless of our ages to learn from. Schmidt takes the passages that the characters must go through and in the end there is always something for the reader to learn. Tiffany uses classic fairy tales to inspire her writing. She has stated that she likes to blend the intrigue and the retelling of a fairy tale to create contemporary writing. She begins her writing being fully aware that the fairy tale would require updating and in many cases major updating. In her study of the retelling of the fairy tales she found the 3 characteristics in both are money, power and rule breaking. The one characteristic in fairy tales she is retelling is how above the law the royal families were. These realizations about the fairy tales and her retelling them were the foundation for her Once Upon a Crime Series, which is a study in thrillers.