Just for fun, here's the un-publisher-snipped bio I wrote for the book. My parents and I came up with it when we went out to Fiesta Guadalajara for a celebratory dinner the night I sent off the final edited copy to the publisher. I was pretty excited because my life sounds fairly interesting when you just list one cool thing a year. :p

Jodi Cowles caught the travel bug when her parents took her on her first international flight at six months of age. Since then she’s been in over 30 countries. Along the way she’s gotten locked out of her cabin on an all night train to Kiev, helped deliver a baby in Indonesia, taught English in South Korea, gone spelunking in Guam, hiked the Golan Heights and laid bricks in Zimbabwe. Her interest in politics stems from hunting Easter eggs on the south lawn of the White House as a child. For her 30th birthday she ran the LA Marathon and promised to get serious about publishing. Jodi resides in Boise, Idaho and this is her first novel.