My worlds…real or imagined…

Minnette began her writing career penning riveting Star Trek episodes to entertain her classmates in fourth grade. She started a fantasy novel when her first son was born, but set it aside to raise six kids. During her career, she has written newspaper articles, jingles for radio commercials, written, produced, and directed several plays, and stacks of un-mailed tirades to anyone who would listen. After her children were grown, she finished her first novel (started twenty years before) and has never looked back. When she is not writing, she helps teach remedial reading, writing, and math at a local elementary school. Minnette currently resides in Beaverton, Oregon with her husband, having replaced the children with five cats and one dog (there shall always be six!).

Her first novel, Starsight, Volume I, an epic fantasy (published by StoneGarden.net Publishing) was released in March 2008, and the sequel Starsight, Volume II will be released in November. The Centurion & The Queen, a historical romance set in 60AD Roman Britannia, was released April 1st with Resplendence Publishing. Its sequel, The Briton & The General, should be released sometime this summer. In addition to her novels, Ms. Meador has a feature in the Cup of Comfort for Single Moms. All books are available through Amazon.com or by order from your favorite bookstore.

Fun Facts

Somewhere between thirty and dust…red hair, blue eyes…six kids, one slightly used husband, and any number of pets from time to time… wanttabe hippy… wanttheirmoney yuppie… pro musician and actress for 20 years…native Oregonian… lover of music, beauty and all things green. Willing slave to the venerable muse, may be shoes be ever ruby, may her nails be ever bright. Favorite quote: “I am only an egg.” Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land - Favorite saying: Beatings and Blessings, my dear.

 Visit Minnette Online:
www.minnettemeador.com
minnettemeador.blogspot.com
Minnette’s 2008 Releases:

Starsight, Vol. I

The Centurion & The Queen

The Breton & The General (Summer 2008)

Starsight Vol. II (November 2008)

A Cup of Comfort for Single Mothers “Sunday Breakfast”

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Marius has been stationed on 60 AD Britannia for sixteen years. Once a celebrated hero and a famous Praetorian Guard, he still clings to the old traditions as a fair but tough leader to his men, despite the shame that drove him from Rome. Delia is sister to an uncaring Corieltauvi tribal king. Powerless, she watches as hundreds of Bretons succumb to their suicidal pride and throw themselves against the unstoppable Roman machine. The last thing Delia expects is to find her body craving the touch of her enemy. The sudden intensity of their desire will change the history of a nation. Separated by fate, they are thrown into the clash between 80,000 angry Bretons and a clever Roman general with only 10,000 soldiers. Marius and Delia find themselves on opposing sides, in love, and unable to stop the future. The revolution that sparked their desire…could now destroy them both.

a historical romance by Minnette Meador

Release Date: April 10, 2008

(ISBN #1934992054)

More information:
Excerpts: www.minnettemeador.com/minnette_home_new_003.htm

Buy it:
Amazon - tinyurl.com/45k289
Resplendence Prints - www.resplendencepublishing.com/61.html
Resplendence eBooks - www.resplendencepublishing.com/m8_view_item.html?m8:item=30-200-105-422-1

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Award-winning author, Pamela S. Thibodeaux is the Co-Founder/President & Treasurer of Bayou Writers Group in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Multi-published in romantic fiction as well as creative non-fiction, her writing has been tagged as, “Inspirational with an Edge!” and reviewed as “steamier and grittier than the typical Christian novel without decreasing the message.”

Meet Pamela online:

Bayou Writers Group Website: www.geocities.com/bayouwritersgroup
Personal Website address: www.pamelathibodeaux.com
Personal Blog: pamswildroseblog.blogspot.com
Weekly Blog Pamela’s Ponderings @ The Romance Readers Room: romancereadersblog.com/category/pamelas-ponderings/

Trivia:
Favorite Color: Peach
Favorite Holiday: Christmas
Hobbies: Reading, Horseback Riding
I am a: Christian, Wife, Mother, Grandmother
Favorite Food: Bread - anything breadlike: cookies, pastries, pies, crackers, etc…once God impressed upon me to give up bread and all bread related items for Lent - talk about a sacrifice!
Favorite Dessert: Chocolate - anything chocolate
Don’t like: Coconut!
Can’t Stand: Violence –Period–especially against women and children
Favorite Charities: St Jude’s Children’s Hospital and Lighthouse Ministries (a home for unwed mothers due to rape and incest located in Reeves, Louisiana)
Favorite Authors: Nora Roberts, Karen Kingsbury, Francine Rivers
Favorite Music: Contemporary Christian

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