We are pleased to have Deanna Raybourn (RITA winner in the Romantic Elements category at this year’s RWA conference in San Fransisco) as our guest this week.
A sixth-generation native Texan, Deanna grew up in San Antonio, where she met her college sweetheart. She married him on her graduation day, and went on to teach high school English and history. She wrote her first novel at the age of twenty-three during summer vacation. After three years as a teacher, Deanna left education to have a baby and pursue writing full-time. Fourteen years and many, many rejections after that first novel, she signed two three-book deals with MIRA.
After one too many hot Texas summers, Deanna and her husband packed up their daughter and their Labrador and moved to Virginia, where they enjoy the fall leaves but deeply miss good Tex-Mex cooking. She is currently at work on her fourth novel, a historical piece set in Scotland and Transylvania.
You can find a review of Deanna’s first book, Silent in the Grave, here.
