My love of fiction first appeared in childhood, when I created what I now recognize as character sketches for each of my Barbie dolls. As a ten-year-old, I wrote and directed theatrical works featuring neighborhood children. The curtain (otherwise known as our garage door) would go up to the applause of mothers seated in lawn chairs on the driveway. My fourth grade teacher captured my imagination with Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series and my teen years were populated by people like Peter Jenkins in A Walk Across America and Corrie ten Boom in The Hiding Place. Even though I was too young to experience romance firsthand, I was entranced with books such as Love Story by Erich Segal and Colleen McCullough’s The Thorn Birds.

I grew up in the Ozark Mountains, where the rolling hills whetted my appetite for the beauty of nature. After graduation from college, I fell in love with a man who wanted to return to the South. We've lived amid the moss-draped trees that line the marshes and wetlands ever since. And though hurricanes threaten from time to time, I'll never live where it snows ever again.

Now--after two kids, a Master's degree, and a couple of careers--I've returned to writing. I always felt like I had something to tell the world--about the quiet dignity of mankind and the power of love. I hope you'll be interested in what I have to say.

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     Contact me at: Sheila@SheilaAthens.com
 

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