Catharina Shields

At the age of eleven, and as eldest daughter in a family of five children, Catharina was expected to take the place of an absent mother. As the second child of five born to Dutch-Indo immigrants, she took to storytelling to paint a happier world for them and for herself.

Catharina has always enjoyed storytelling that has evolved from hand-drawn comic strips, to creating hand-puppets - "Meemies and Fluffies" - for her siblings' morning puppet show, to writing stories in longhand in spirals armed with only a pen while dreaming of a day when she'd own a typewriter. Today, in her Southern California home, she can't live without her computer, and she now enjoys storytelling via her e-books, specializing in mystery, drama, and paranormal romance.

You can follow her at:

http://catharinashields.blogspot.com/

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4748985.Catharina_Shields

http://www.facebook.com/people/Cat-Shields/100002038658895

http://twitter.com/CatShields

Or visit her official author's website: http://www.catharinashields.com/