Pike became famous thanks to a series of fantastic love affairs under the general name “Wings”. Her debut book, presented by the famous writer Stephanie Meyer, who wrote the iconic The Twilight Saga, became a real event in the literary world. The company "Walt Disney", anticipating the success of the book, acquired the rights to film adaptation, and the novel "Wings" and its main character young Laurel instantly acquired millions of fans.
Childhood and youth
The future popular writer was born in 1981 in the city of Salt Lake City (Utah), spent her childhood in Phoenix, and her youth in Driggs (Idaho), where she moved with the whole family. From an early age, her bright creative personality began to appear. The girl came up with amazingly colorful fairy tales that she carried on paper, sang in the choir and participated in the productions of the drama circle. After graduating from high school, Pike Eprilinn entered the Lewis Clark College, where for three years she studied literary and theatrical art. During training, Eprilinn worked part time as a waitress, and devoted free time to participating in performances of the city amateur theater. Her favorite role was Lisa Doolittle from the famous musical "My Fair Lady". After graduating from her studies, Pike Eprilinn received a bachelor of arts degree.
The path to a literary career
Soon after graduating from college, Eprilinne met Kenneth Pike, who became her husband a year and a half later. The writer later admitted that their meeting while serving in the Mormon Church was love at first sight. Together with her husband, she moved to the city of Provo (Utah), where Kenneth studied at the Faculty of Philosophy. To give her husband the opportunity to complete her education, Pike Eprilinn took on the responsibility of maintaining the family, first teaching the waitresses, and later working as an assistant restaurant manager. After the birth of the first child, Eprilinn stopped working and devoted herself to the baby. At the same time, she began to write her first novel, while simultaneously doing editorial work for the spiritual literary agency Testament, for the sake of which she completed a course in editing at Brigham Young Private Mormon University.
Long-awaited success
Soon the couple had a second child, and despite the fact that after graduating Kenny began working as a teacher, the young family still did not have enough money. Eprilinn continued to write and had already completed three novels, but could not find an interested publisher. Young people did not give up, Pike Eprilinn studied obstetrics and began to teach courses for expectant and young mothers at the Arizona Birth Support Center. And her husband continued to work and study at Bryam Young University in the Faculty of Law. A few months later, a literary agent, Jodi Rimer, contacted Aprillin and agreed to submit her work, but the publishers still showed no interest. Then Pike remembered her childhood fascination with science fiction stories and decided to write a book for a teenage audience. She finished her fourth novel almost on the eve of the birth of her third child. After several months of languid anticipation, Harper Teen was finally interested in this literary work. In 2009, after editorial refinement, the debut novel Wings was published. The romantic story of the adventures of the young fairy Laurel and the secrets of the magical land of Avalon instantly became a bestseller. And the novice writer received the long-awaited recognition and confidence that she does not waste time on empty dreams, as she had thought recently. Later in her interviews, the already popular author Eprilinn Pike expressed gratitude to Stephanie Meyer, whose works had a significant impact on her work.
Aprillinne Pike: books
The writer has more than a dozen novels today, a collection of short stories and short stories, the most popular of which are published in Russian:
- The novel “Wings” describes the love and adventure story of the fifteen-year-old girl Laurel Sewell, who suddenly found out that she was a fairy and had to fight with otherworldly forces that threatened the magical land of Avalon.
- The novel "Enchantment" continues an amazing story about a young fairy. Now she has to step on a secret road and make a difficult choice between the two worlds.
- Mirages is Laurel’s third adventure novel. She returned from a magical land, and, it would seem, nothing more threatens her love and happiness. Suddenly, everything changes when a stranger Yuki appears at the school where Laurel is studying, and on the outskirts of the city strange traces are increasingly found.
- Eprilinne Pike completes the narrative of the young fairy with the novel The Design. She now knows all the secrets and designs of enemies who want to destroy Avalon. Will Laurel and her friends survive the hard fight?
The writer Aprillyn Pike continues to work, despite the many maternal responsibilities and volunteer work that they carry out with her husband.