Tera Lynn Childs

Though Tera Lynn Childs may pretend to be a goddess, she’s really just a normal person. Well, maybe not normal. She is a writer, after all.

Of course, she wasn’t always a writer. In fact, it took her a while to realize that’s what she really, really, really wanted to be. Along the way she took detours through architecture, environmental biology, theatre, historic preservation, and–she shudders at the memory–teaching. She still has nightmares. At least as a young adult author she can use her former students as research.

When not collaging her latest hero–can a girl have too many pictures of Nick Lachey?–she spends her time writing at Starbucks, blogging with the Buzz Girls, hunting down long-lost loves on MySpace, and convincing herself that watching America’s Next Top Model counts as research.

Achievements

2004 Golden Heart finalist, Short Historical category [Summer Sapphire]
2005 Romancing the Novel winner, Chick Lit category [Straight Stalk]
2006 Emily finalist, Single Title category [Straight Stalk]

Website

http://www.teralynnchilds.com