Shelley Stringer

Shelley L. Stringer was born and raised in a small town in Texas, where cattle, oil and Friday night football were king and the teenagers spent their weekends cruising up and down the main drag. As small-town Texas as they come, Shelley married her high school sweetheart, Jay, and they both attended the small community college in the county. She has an Associate in Science in English from Vernon College, and empty-nest syndrome when her boys graduated prompted her foray into writing. As her uncle put it, "Her imagination is completely off the charts! She has managed to create a paranormal world full of history and colloquialisms, and she's lived in the same house the first eighteen years of her life, and the same town her whole life!" Shelley has always loved romance novels, and re-kindled her interest in reading after a friend encouraged her to read the "Twilight" series. Finding the next series they read lacking, she told the friend that she could write a better love scene than the one they were reading. The friend challenged her to do it, and then loved the result so much that Shelley expanded the story and completed her first work, "Southern Comfort" in 2011. After several failed attempts at querying agents and publishers, her husband encouraged her to self-publish. "You might as well sell 'em instead of walking around with those damn manuscripts asking, 'will you read my book?'" Five years later, her published works include "Southern Comfort," "Southern Secrets," "Southern Spirits," and "Texas Hellcat." The sequel to "Texas Hellcat", her fifth novel, is now in the editing phase and "Texas Girl Grit" will be released in 2016. Shelley has high hopes that someday she can convince her husband (now married thirty-two years) that he can stomach the "Five-hundred pages of mushy romance," and he will finally read one of her books! And no, to answer the question all her readers ask, Jay is NOT the inspiration for the romantic alpha-male heroes in her books. She says that's why it's called "Romantic FICTION."