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She wrote her
first book in junior high school with the hero modeled after Peter
Noone of Herman's Hermits. (Anyone remember him?) When she let a
favorite teacher read it and received a less than enthusiastic response,
Cynthia promptly relegated it to the trash. However,
she couldn't stay away from writing. When she was sixteen she penned
these words in her diary: "I don't know what I would do if I couldn't
be a writer." .
But it would
be several decades before her dream would become a reality. In the
meantime, she would go to college, first graduating with a BA in
Sociology and Political Science and later with a Bachelor of Science
in Nursing. As a registered nurse she would work at a variety of
different jobs, including a hospital discharge planner, a hospice
coordinator, and most recently, as a regional consultant for a large
insurance company.
During
all this, she and her husband Kirt would raise one daughter, Wendy,
and a variety of pets. It was while Wendy was in college that the
dream of writing resurfaced. A little over three years after she
began writing again, Cynthia sold her first novel, Unforgettable
Faith, an inspirational romance to Steeple Hill. She's proud of
the books she's written and truly believes that to get to know an
author, you only need to read her work. Cynthia invites you to grab
a cup of hot cocoa, curl up with one of her novels, and get better
acquainted!
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