Teddi Robinson

I was never the typical girl. I wasn't a tomboy either. Dad always told me to explore the world around me and I did. I had a lot of interesting adventures including walking into a snake pit and not taking the step that would have caused me to fall down a 60 ft. cave. Some of my readers have compared me to 'Huckleberry Finn' by Mark Twain. The above is recounted in my book 'The Misadventures of a Country Girl'

I discovered I could write when I started a story for a contest in one of my mother's Romance magazines. I was about 12 years old at the time and wrote the story in a letter form to my lover. Unfortunately, I used my father's first name for the man in my life. My story disappeared. Several days later, I walked in on an argument between my mother and father. Mother was waving the letter under dad's nose and demanding to know who the woman was. Poor dad. He knew nothing about the letter. When I tried to tell mom the letter was mine, she said, "Your father lies and you swear to it." With that statement, she walked off, with my letter.

I wrote newsletters for clubs and press releases for the organizations I belonged to. I've attended IUS Creative Writing classes, both for credit and non-credit. I have attended writing seminars. I have a small group of writers who critique each other's work once a month. Two years ago, I taught a Creative Writing class, once a week for two sessions, for the Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department, Clarksville, Indiana. I have 9 books published and several people who buy my books as soon as they are published.