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Emma's Story
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Emma Cane was born in Erie, a small Pennsylvania town on beautiful
Lake Erie, where the sunsets are some of the best in the world. Though Emma
enjoyed figure skating and skiing (good sports in the northeast), she brought a
book everywhere she went, usually science fiction and fantasy. Yes, Emma was a
Trekkie. Early in her teen years, she decided maybe she could be a writer, and
wrote passionate stories of teenagers in space, first by hand until her fingers
cramped, and then on her dad’s manual typewriter, which she still can’t bear to
give away. In high school she discovered historical romances, starting with
Kathleen Woodiwiss’s Shanna, and Emma never looked back. The first romance
she ever tried to write was a historical Western, but now she’s changed to the
21st century, where cowboys can ride pickup trucks as well as horses.
Emma fell in love with small-town, heartwarming stories. Emma
always wanted a career. She determined she wouldn’t
be good at the family business, funeral directing, mainly because a
funeral
director is a social creature, out in society, joining lots of
committees and being
involved in the community. She likes to pick and choose her committees
(she's served in almost every capacity in her local writers' group and
in booster clubs during her kid's high school sports years). She
especially enjoys being at home in the evenings, her face
buried in a book. When she went to college, Emma figured it might be
difficult
to earn a living writing, so she tried many different jobs. After
majoring in
aerospace engineering and taking all her electives in English, she
realized
writing was her future. While she learned her craft and raised her
children,
she worked several jobs, from fitness training to programming
computer-controlled machines to technical writing. She joined her local
chapter of Romance
Writers
of America, found her best friends, and with their help, sold her
manuscript to
Avon Books. Now that her three children are grown, Emma loves spending time crocheting and singing (although not necessarily at the same time), and hiking and snowshoeing alongside her husband Jim and their rambunctious dog, Uma. Emma also writes as USA Today Bestselling historical romance author Gayle Callen. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And if you want the short and sweet, professional bio, here it is! Emma Cane
grew up reading and soon discovered that she liked to write passionate stories
of teenagers in space. Her love of “passionate stories” has never gone away,
although today she concentrates on the heartwarming small-town books. Now that
her three children are grown, Emma loves spending time crocheting and singing
(although not necessarily at the same time), and hiking and snowshoeing
alongside her husband Jim and her rambunctious dog Uma. Emma also
writes USA Today bestselling historical romances under the name Gayle Callen. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For Valentine's Day, the Avon Authors hosted a Recipe Loop. I couldn't bear to take the page down! Check out the Recipe for Almond-Infused Hot White Chocolate Over Frozen Berries! And another delicious recipe, this time for an appetizer, Brie En Croute! And here's my famous Apple Nut Cake and Apple Pie, all to celebrate my Fairfield Orchard series. |
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