Mariah Fredericks, also known as Emmi Fredericks, is the author of bestselling fiction

Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...

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Book

A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of hot lava, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf or leaflet, and each side of a leaf is called a page...

s for teens, including In the Cards: Love and the bestselling novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 The True Meaning of Cleavage. (ISBN 978-0-689-85092-9)

Fredericks has been reading tarot cards since she was a teenager, and while she knows that it is pitiful to believe in fortune-telling, her readings keep coming true, so she keeps doing them. She has written a tarot guide called The Smart Girl's Guide to Tarot. Mariah Fredericks lives with her husband and basset hound

Basset Hound

The Basset Hound is a short-legged breed of dog of the hound family. They are scent hounds, bred to hunt rabbits and hare by scent. Their sense of smell for tracking is second only to that of the Bloodhound....

in Queens.

External links

• Official author website
• Fredericks at SimonSaysTeen.com (Simon & Schuster)
• {http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Mariah-Fredericks/17574675/books}