June Keating Sherwin

I fell in love with Florida (old conch house Florida, that is) as a kid reading books under a whirring fan on my grandpa's porch overlooking the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers. The bond grew stronger years later during exciting days fishing and diving with my husband and children in the Florida Keys; and stronger still up in Indian River County where our house on stilts faced the Atlantic Ocean out the front door and the Indian River out back.

I didn't write for kids at first. For years, the bulk of my writing was for business. Then I got the chance to teach fifth-grade language arts at a wonderful school in Florida, where my students inspired me to write a story just for them. "Red, Right, Return" keeps three things in mind: 1) exciting boat days on the water in the Florida Keys, 2) prickly brother-sister relations, and 3) ancient Spanish treasure. Yes, I'm obsessed with treasure. Isn't everyone?

These days, my husband and I live in Atlanta, GA where I substitute teach and work on writing projects including the exciting sequel to RRR.