Tallahassee, 2nd Level- photo by Janet Gillespie, USDF Regionals 2012
A Little Info From Elle Andrews Patt:
Like many lifelong writers, I've been writing fiction for the consumption of others since childhood. After college, I stopped writing for about ten years. Coming back to it as a young stay-at-home mother desperate for intellectual stimulation, I found fan-fiction. Many generous and gracious online writers and betas gifted me with an actual education in the craft of writing. I doubt I could ever express my full gratitude to them for handing me back my soul.
Since then, I have also found new perspectives and enlightenment through my real-life and online writing groups. My work has been recognized for excellence by Writers of The Future, the Florida Writers Association's Royal Palm Literary Awards, the National Indie Excellence Awards, and Killer Nashville's Silver Falchion and Claymore Awards.
My family, my husband, and my kids have been in turns exasperated and delighted by my self-torture and small successes. In between the hours of keyboard-pounding, computer-screen staring, and quiet despair, I've team-mom'ed for softball, volleyball, and golf, rejoiced at finding wi-fi far afield, and ridden my horses both cross country and all gussied up into the dressage arena. My day jobs have ranged from slinging pizza to mucking stalls to packing telephones to running spay/neuter as a certified veterinary technician. For now, I'm a laptop warrior, a digital jack-of-all trades.
Having cancer (cured by double mastectomy) followed by becoming a primary care-taker for a family member has given me a long-term view on life and what's important to me, personally. That my agent came along during that time to offer me encouragement certainly helped me keep writing through the tough times. I'm looking forward to sharing more work with readers for years to come.
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