Shelley Cooper

Shelley Cooper first experienced the power of words when
she was in the
eighth grade and wrote a paragraph about the circus for a
class assignment.
Her teacher returned it with an A and seven pluses scrawled
across the top
of the paper, along with a note thanking her for rekindling
so vividly some
cherished childhood memories. Since Shelley had never been
to the circus
and had relied solely on her imagination to compose the
paragraph, the
teachers remarks were a revelation. Since then, Shelley
has relied on her
imagination to help her sell dozens of short stories as
well as five novels
to Silhouette Intimate Moments. She hopes her books will
be as moving to
her readers as her circus paragraph was to that long-ago
English teacher.
Shelley lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her husband
and two teenage
children. Readers can contact her at patpit@attbi.com.