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I have been daydreaming stories for as long as I can remember.  My first recollection of wanting to be a writer was when I was in the second grade, and my teacher, Mrs. Rambin, would have us lay our heads on our desks after lunch while she read us stories full of magic and imagination.

Most of my early writings were stories with a twist of science fiction…even my earliest poems.  I remember sitting on the dam of a neighbor’s pond around the time I was eleven, writing a story about space travel.  In fact, I still have that little handwritten story.  It’s still bound in the same yellow notebook that I put it in way back in the sixth grade!

Growing up in Nacogdoches, the oldest town in Texas, afforded me summers full of adventure with my friends.  I call on those adventures and memories a great deal for my YA stories.  Cicada has a lot of the energy of those childhood adventures spun throughout.  One of them is something that actually happened to me when I was thirteen years old.  I was on one of my adventures in the woods with my dog, Dusty.  We made our way through the woods to a neighboring pasture and crawled through the barbed wire fence.

When we got to the top of one of the rolling hills in the grassy field, I realized I was standing in the middle of a giant circle imprinted in the pasture grass.  No one had ever told me about crop circles at that time in my life, so I just thought it was an odd occurrence that there was a strange circle in the tall grass.   Now that circle is forever memorialized in a YA novel, Cicada!

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December 2016
Cheryl Strayed, Best-Selling Author of WILD, and Belle at the
John Cooper Signature's Author Event.
December 2016
Cardboard Reese Witherspoon and Belle at the
John Cooper Signature's Author Event.


December 4, 2015
Cardboard Ben Afleck and Belle at the
John Cooper Signatures Author Event


December 4, 2015
Well Waiting to Greet Readers at the
John Cooper Signatures Author Event


Belle & CC Hunter @ John Cooper
Signature
Author Event 2013

Houston Authors Bash 2014
Belle & Fabio 2014
Bikers, Babes & Books

Belle & Author Ashley Nemer
Authors are My Rockstars 2014
Author Panel @ The Craft & Business
of Writing 2013

Montgomery County
Book Festival 2014

Forks, Washington.  Yep, I went there!

Jan Paris Book Festival 2013

Inspiration Playlists

Like most authors, I love listening to great music while writing.  There are so many talented musicians that inspire me while daydreaming and writing my stories.  I thought I'd share my inspiration playlists with my lovely readers. :-) Many thanks to the awesome musicians whose songs have given me so much inspiration.  Thank you for sharing your magic!

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