Shauna Michaels

I have been writing for over nineteen years, finding satisfaction as well as frustration in the creative process of putting a novel together. There have been times I've thought of walking away from writing, but I haven't been able to. Writing is such a part of me that I feel incomplete without it. But I have to admit, that I might not be writing today if it wasn't for the support of my husband of twenty-nine years.

I am a lucky woman. I have lived a romance all the thirty- one years I've known my husband, Mike. We met in college, and though it wasn't love at first sight, I knew he was the one soon after I started dating him. We have a son who is now in college himself. I hope he is as lucky as my husband and I and he finds a woman to be with for the rest of his life.

I just recently sold my first historical to Precious Gem Historicals. LOUISIANA BRIDE came out in March 1999. I am so excited about this sale because when I first started writing years ago it was an historical (which will never see the light of day). I love history and being able to combine both history and a good romance is wonderful to me.

I like to travel and many of the places I have been to are in my books. I don't like to write about a place without having been there first. My novel, LOUISIANA BRIDE, takes place where I grew up in Biloxi, Mississippi which was a part of France's Louisiana territory. In the latest two books, FLIGHT OF FANTASY and HOLD ONTO THE NIGHT, much of the action takes place in a rain forest which I had the good fortune of visiting one last summer in Belize.