Carmel Hanes

Carmel Hanes is the curious result of whisking the DNA of Mr. Spock, Boo Radley, Atticus Finch, and Mr. Rogers together and baking it in a female body. She hid among the likeable misfit toys she worked with in public schools and detention centers during a thirty year career as a school psychologist. The indelible imprint they left on her insisted on expression in this debut novel, exposing the struggles we all have to overcome early influences. She avoids crowds, preferring to commune with sand dollars, trees, waterfalls, or the alternative universe of a good book.