![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You ( St.Other inspirations for the novel include dark comedy teenage obsessions of hers, namely the movies The Craft, Heathers and Death Becomes Her. She drew on her own experience as a Wiccan for her novel Undead Girl Gang, in which a teenage Wiccan resurrects her dead best friend. She names American screenwriter and director Shonda Rimes and American plus-size model Tess Holliday as the sources of some of her inspiration. Īnderson is an elementary school librarian and lives in Northern California. Īnderson grew up doing theatre and is a self-proclaimed theatre geek, saying that she did her first Shakespeare play when she was 12 or 13 years old, which ultimately led to her writing both novels in her debut young adult series The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You as retellings of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and William Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing. 'The Only Thing Worse Than Me is You' is definitely not the worse teen fiction out there in fact, it's downright hilarious If the title doesn't give you a hint to how funny and light this read it, maybe this review will help. After she dropped out of college at age 18, Anderson wrote her first book and decided she wanted to become a published writer. She has been a Wiccan since she was eight years old. Lily Anderson (December 15, 1988) is a Latinx author of young adult fiction, best known for her Indie's Choice Book Award-nominated novel Undead Girl Gang.Īnderson is an Afrolatina of Puerto Rican descent. ![]()
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