Sara Bell Welles

Sara Bell Welles was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, but moved to Florida when she was four years old. At the tender age of eight, Ms. Welles started her drawing career. One of her creations was a comic strip named, Christine who was published in her high-school and college newspapers. Between the ages of nine and eleven, Ms. Welles wrote several adult horror books (Mary and House of Hell). In her early twenties, she wrote several Y.A. books (Aranha Historia and Star Ship Estrella). Recently, she wrote a middle-grade book called, Stacey Peterson and the School of Bullies. Ms. Welles also wrote several Christian, picture books (Dear Jesus; Why Did You take my Grandpa, Dear Jesus; My Parents are Divorcing, and Dear Jesus; I Have a Bully).

Ms. Welles’s educational background includes Douglas Anderson’s School of the Arts, The Westside Skill’s Center, Florida State College of Jacksonville, and Ashford University. She has entered several of her art pieces into her college’s art gallery and has won Honorable Mention twice. Ms. Welles has volunteered to paint several murals for her local schools.

For more than thirty years, Sara Bell Welles was an early childhood educator. It was during that time, Ms. Welles created songs, stories, and illustrations to go along with her lesson plan. It was while she was teaching that Ms. Welles discovered her true talent, writing and illustrating for children’s books

Now, Sara Bell Welles uses her time and talents to self-publish her children’s books (for ages 1-8) online. You can find them on Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Nook, Kindle, Swip-Swap, and on her website http://sarabellwelles.wixsite.com/sarabellwelles. Her current titles are Ernie the Wormy, A Picnic, A Picnic: What a Wonderful Surprise, Umbrella: I Need You, Oh, Mrs. Cow, Christine, and Laddie Leprechaun.

Ms. Welles has three pets, two dogs (Benji and Jasper), and a cat (Shelly). Sara Bell Welles can also be hired as an illustrator, cartoonist, freelance artist and writer, or photographer. Her friends like to call her, “the accessories lady;” because she likes to put unique and different items in her hair.