Amanda Pepper is an award-winning author and screenwriter who writes adult fiction under the name M Pepper Langlinais and young adult books as Amanda Innes. She has been a production assistant on film sets, a dogsbody for community theaters, a performer of Shakespeare, an instructor for summer camps, and worked in the publishing industry before turning her attention to her own writing. She grew up in Texas, went to graduate school in Massachusetts, and now lives in California.