Shirley Bahlmann

Ever since I can remember, I've loved reading so much that, as a child, I'd hide in the closet with books so Mom wouldn't put me to work for "not doing anything." (Hellooo? What's this in my hands? Yes, a book that requires quiet stillness to travel to marvelous places! I'm doing more than you know, Mom.) My first novel was 25 pages long. At the time, I didn't think anything of it, but now I know how weird I was to write a novel just for fun at the age of ten. A prolific and eclectic author, I won first place for a newspaper feature article in 2011, and the novel I wrote for Merrill Osmond, "Faith, Hope and Gravity," hit #2 on Amazon's U.K. Movers and Shakers list in 2012! Writing historical fiction, biographies, novels, paranormal, how-to and how-not-to, I published 20 books in 10 years and continue happily writing my way through all the stories that live in my head. Please see my newest news at http://shirleybahlmann.blogspot.com/