Career
Precious Blood, the first book in "The Blessed" trilogy (Simon & Schuster) was published in 2012, and "Passionaries" the second book was released January 7, 2013. The Blessed audiobook is read by Moonrise Kingdom star Kara Hayward. Her books are published in nearly 30 countries and in more than 20 languages.
Hurley began her career as a music publicist for such artists as Prince, George Michael, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Bush, Erasure, Morrissey, The B-52’s, Paul Westerberg, John Cale, The Three Tenors and Johnny Rotten among many others
Hurley was co-creator and co-producer of the sitcom So Little Time (American Broadcasting Company Family) and the animated Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action! (American Broadcasting Company) both starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. She was the primary provider of original content for the mary-kateandashley website and creator and co-executive producer of mary-kateandashley brand video games for PlayStation 2 and Game Boy.
She wrote, produced and directed commercials for Warner Home video, PlayStation and Game Boy and developed mary-kateandashley dolls and boardgames for Mattel. Hurley"s series ghostgirl was launched in 2002 on ghostgirl.com and published as a Young Adult series from Little, Brown in 2008.
The first novel of the series received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, VOYA and School Library Journal.
lieutenant hit the New York Times best-seller list the week of September 14, 2008. The books have been optioned for film by X-men: First Class, Kick-Ass and The Kingsmen director Matthew Vaughan. Hurley is set to Executive Produce.
