Maddy Barone

Maddy Barone has held many jobs in her life, including medic in the US Army, sales clerk in a craft store, and financial examiner for Medicare, but her favorite job is that of writer. For fun she knits, spins (the making yarn kind, not the exercise kind *shudder*), and sews historical costumes for her alter ego in the SCA. The Society For Creative Anachronism is a historical organization that recreates the best parts of the Middle Ages. She lives in North Dakota USA. The state is still a sparsely populated region with less than 725,000 residents in 183,272 square km. This might be due to the cold winters, where the average low temperature in January is -20C and -35 is usual. It's a good thing she likes winter.

She loves her three rescue cats. Lost and abandoned cats don't survive the winter without help, so a percentage of her royalties go to a local no kill cat shelter called CATS Cradle. Learn more about the work they do at www.catscradleshelter.org.

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