Julie Anne Peters was born in Jamestown, New York When she was five, her family moved to the Denver suburbs in Colorado Her parents divorced when she was in high school She has three siblings a brother, John, and two younger sisters, Jeanne and Susan.Her books for young adults include Define Normal 2000 , Keeping You a Secret 2003 , Luna 2004 , Far from Xanadu 2005 , Between Mom and Jo 2006 , grl2grl 2007 , Rage A Love Story 2009 , By the Time You Read This, I ll Be Dead 2010 , She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not 2011 , It s Our Prom So Deal with It 2012 , and Lies My Girlfriend Told Me 2014 Her young adult fiction often feature lesbian characters and address LGBT issues She has announced that she has retired from writing, and Lies My Girlfriend Told Me will be her last novel She now works full time for the Colorado Reading Corps.