My Biography

My name is Christina Herrera, and I write Young Adult Romance. I’ve always had a passion for telling love stories about teenagers, even as a little girl. I would spend hours on end with my childhood best friend creating love stories for our dolls. I was always the friend who made it a little harder for Barbie to get with Ken.

Anyway, I started writing romance novels during my second semester of college during finals and around the holiday season. Before I started writing novels, my first love was poetry. I used to stay up late at night and write poetry in my closet. So I guess my addiction to writing really started when I was 13, but my love for writing novels began when I was 19.

I’ll never forget laying on my little pink rug in my dorm room with my laptop flat on the floor. I started writing my first book, and I had no clue where it was going, or where it would lead me. I knew that writing was my passion and that I wanted someone to be able to read my words someday, but what I didn’t know was whether or not I would be able to finish that first novel. I ended up writing the first 30 pages or so over Christmas break, and I remember the epiphany I had when I signed up for my first Creative Writing class the following semester. I wasn’t an English major at the time, but I couldn’t help myself, I had to learn how to write a book.

The following semester I met a teacher who changed my life forever. I would stay after class and talk to this teacher for sometimes 30-45 minutes about how to write and publish a novel. I learned the difference between self-publishing and traditional publishing and how it would affect me. I came back to this teacher with question after question until I finally knew the path that I wanted to take.

So here I am, 23-years-old with two semesters left of school, and on the verge of graduating with my four-year Creative Writing degree with a minor in Business Administration. I feel like I have grown a lot as a writer and as a person in the past couple of years. I went and got married, moved from BYU-Idaho to UTC, and wrote three complete Young Adult Contemporary Romance novels. I have half of a YA romance written right now, and in the fall I am going to take a Novel Writing course. I am currently brainstorming a brand-new book project, and I am so pumped to start writing this concept that makes my heart beat a little faster any time that I think of it.