![]() ![]() One grounds me in reality and the other offers a break from it.Īfter finishing this book, I can say with all certainty that it has been much too long since I read a Jo Goodman. I am currently the executive director of a child caring/mental health agency and find my work and my writing often compliment each other. I began working with adolescents and families, first as a childcare worker and later, after graduating from West Virginia University with a master's degree in counseling, as a therapist. Years of competitive swimming didn't help me anticipate seasickness. ![]() I graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a major in biology and a minor in chemistry and some notion that I would do marine research. They bought me an electric typewriter and crossed their fingers, but somehow PASSION'S BRIDE came out. My supportive, but vaguely concerned parents, sighed with relief when I announced I was going to write children's books. There was also a story about a runaway girl with the unlikely name of Strawberry and one about mistaken identities and an evil blind date. In seventh grade I wrote a melodrama about two orphan sisters, one of whom was pregnant. I was in fourth grade, but it was a start. ![]() To find characters to illustrate my first family saga, I cut out models from the Sears catalogue. ![]()
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