Prior to being published, Amy Holder worked as an assistant teacher in a Montessori school, a Therapeutic Staff Support (TSS) for children and pre-teens dealing with mental health and/or emotional issues, and the Program Director for a non-profit social service agency helping special needs clients ranging from teens to early adulthood. She worked closely with her clients, their families, and regularly consulted with other professionals (physicians, psychologists, teachers, school administrators, behavioral specialists, etc.) to come up with the best plans of care to ensure each individual client's educational, social, medical, and environmental needs were being met. Amy's… personal and professional experiences with teens, paired with her own vivid memories of high school, motivated her to channel her love of writing for a young adult audience. The rise of social bullying and body image issues in today's youth inspired her to write THE LIPSTICK LAWS, which confronts these topics in a relevant way that most teenage girls will be able to relate to.