Kellie Bellamy Tayer

Kellie Bellamy Tayer (aka Kellie Hernandez) lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and is a writer of both women's contemporary romance and young adult romantic fiction. She graduated from Ohio Valley College in 1982 and studied journalism for two years at Kent State University. She served in the United States Marine Corps in the mid-1980's and worked as a journalist for the Des Moines Register newspaper in Iowa and as a correspondent for the Sun Press newspapers in Northeast Ohio. Kellie has three children and one grandchild. Her published novels in women's romantic fiction are: "Latin Lover," "Foreign Affairs" and "The Passionate Ones." Her young adult trilogy ("The Talisman Trilogy") consists of "The Gypsy Thief," "The Dark Prince" and "The Shadow King." She has just completed a memoir about her time with the mysterious elduck123, entitled "This is not a Fairy Tale: How I Found Love Playing Words With Friends and Almost Lost My Mind." The publication date is still to be determined.