Galaxy Craze

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Galaxy Craze
Born1970 (age 52–53) [1]
or
1972 (age 50–51) [2]
London, England, U.K.
OccupationNovelist, actress
NationalityBritish-American
Education Barnard College (BA)
New York University
Genre Young adult fiction
Science fiction & fantasy
Mystery fiction
Years active1991-present
Children2

Galaxy Craze (born 1970 or 1972) is a British-American novelist and former actress. [1]

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Early Life

Craze was born in London, England. [1] Her mother was 19 when Craze was born, and her father was a hairdresser during the 1960s. Her parents' marriage was tumultuous. [3] She and her divorced mother moved to California when Craze was eight [1] or 10 years old. [4] She has said of her unusual name that her mother was a hippie and "I don't recommend people give their kids weird names." [1] She has a younger brother. [3]

Craze, her brother, and their mother lived on an ashram in Florida. [1] [3] Craze began attending boarding school at age 12, and her education was funded by a grandmother. [1]

Career

Craze attended Barnard College, where writing teacher Mary Gordon mentored her. [5] As a college student, while staying at the apartment of Details magazine editor Joe Dolce, she wrote essays for the magazine, and interned at Interview magazine. [3] She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard in 1993. [6]

Craze appeared as an actress in A Kiss Before Dying (1991), [4] the Woody Allen film Husbands and Wives (1992), [1] and vampire film Nadja (1994). [3] She chose to not pursue acting and enrolled in the New York University creative masters writing program [3] on a full scholarship from The New York Times . [1] [6] She also received a teaching stipend. She began writing her first novel, By the Shore, as a grad-student. [5] Craze showed early chapters of the novel to a book editor Jonathan Burnham and agent Kim Witherspoon. She was told the novel would be difficult to sell. [3]

After moving from New York City to Amherst, Massachusetts to continue writing, Craze sent the first three chapters of By the Shore to Dolce, who gave the manuscript to publisher Grove Atlantic. [1] Editor Elisabeth Schmitz signed Craze to a two-book deal. [3]

By the Shore, was published in 1999 [7] and was greeted with acclaim. [3] It follows the story of May, a 12-year-old girl with a young, self- absorbed mother who struggles with single parenthood, romance, and running a bed and breakfast.

Craze struggled to write her second novel. She wrote half a manuscript before abandoning it. [4] She completed a 380 page manuscript that she also discarded. [3] By the Shore's sequel, Tiger, Tiger, was published in 2008. The story takes place two years after By the Shore, and involves May's mother moving herself and her children to an ashram near Los Angeles. Craze has said that her first two novels are partially autobiographical. [3] Tiger, Tiger was praised by AfterEllen as an "absolutely beautiful novel about a family that is struggling to stay together." [7] The Los Angeles Times called it "a deceptively slight, simple, haunting story, a meditation on a disintegrating family." [3] However, it received a quieter reception in the US than By the Shore. [4]

Book packager Alloy Entertainment approached Craze to write The Last Princess, which she recalled as being enjoyable due to the collaborative nature with "a strict deadline." [8] The Last Princess, was published in 2012. It was described by Kirkus Reviews as "Princess Eliza Windsor fights comic-book evil in a post-apocalyptic United Kingdom," and criticized the narrative's rushed pace and lack of character development. [9] A prequel, entitled Invasion, was published in 2015.

In 2013, Publishers Weekly announced that Soho Teen had bought the North American rights to a YA mystery co-written by Craze and screenwriter Mark Bomback. Publication was originally planned for the spring of 2014. Kim Witherspoon represented Craze in making the deal. [10]

The novel, entitled Mapmaker, was published in 2015. Craze was interviewed by Ted Perch on the local television program In Studio by Easthampton Media to promote the book. She said Bomback primarily contributed the larger concept and story twists. Mapmaker is set in Amherst, MA, and follows protagonist Tanya as she interns at internet cartography company MapOut and investigates her father's disappearance. Craze stated that she would like to write a sequel, but needed permission from the publisher. [11]

Personal Life

Craze is an Anglophile. [1] [4] She married novelist and documentary film producer Sam Brumbaugh in 2002. [4] They have two children. [3]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1991 A Kiss Before Dying Susie
1992 Husbands and Wives Harriett
1994 Nadja Lucy
1996WinterludeBetsy Dance Short
1998Myth America Video
1998 The Second Bakery Attack WifeShort
1999PigeonholedKayleigh
2010Long Way HomeWomanShort

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  9. ↑ "The Last Princess". Kirkus Reviews . New York City: Kirkus Media LLC. May 1, 2012. Archived from the original on March 15, 2016. Retrieved November 4, 2023.
  10. ↑ "Rights Report: Week of February 11, 2013". Publishers Weekly . New York City: PWxyz, LLC. February 11, 2013. Archived from the original on November 5, 2023. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
  11. ↑ Galaxy Craze, Ted Perch (June 4, 2015). In Studio: Galaxy Craze (video). Easthampton, Massachusetts: Easthampton Media. Event occurs at 10:30. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
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