Riza Prasetyaningsih

She loves to spend her spare time by reading books, listening to music, watching DVDs, and playing her iPad. Writing is not her new thing. She started it when she was still a teenager. She often sent short stories to teen magazines and failed. Somehow, she felt like writing couldn't be her passion at the time.

After being hiatus for years, she started it again when she was studying in the university. Her first published writing was a short story with title "If Only I Remember". It was published by Gogirl Magazine!, in September 2006 issue. "A Blossom Novella" was born at the same year. She sent it to several publishers but always got rejected. In early 2010, she attended a writing workshop, which was held by the biggest and well-known publisher, and surprisingly won as a runner-up with her short story called "Melody". In late 2011, she then decided to publish "A Blossom Novella" by herself, using the Self-Publishing indie partner from internet (NulisBuku).

She's currently working on several of her drafts whilst juggling between her work life and feeding her cats!