![]() ![]() Although writing Pokémon kept her busy, Scholastic picked up her original series, Pixie Tricks. ![]() In 1997 she started Pure West Productions and began writing, editing, and packaging books and magazines. West then went to work for Scholastic, and when she left in 1996, she decided to try writing books full time. They wrote the book under the pseudonym Jayne Harvey. At the same time, she and two friends came up with an idea for a children's book called Great Uncle Dracula. Finally, she wrote her first book, a Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys Supermystery called Spies and Lies. She started submitting ideas for books that other writers would then turn into stories. From there West moved to a company that packaged children's books and sold them to other publishers. She worked on the college newspaper and as a reporter before graduating and getting a job as an editorial assistant at a small publishing company. After high school, West attended Rutgers University and studied English and Journalism. Tracey West grew up in a small town in New Jersey. ![]()
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