Barbara Miller, alias Laurel Ames, now teaches in the Writing Popular Fiction graduate program at Seton Hill University and is Reference Librarian at Mount Pleasant Free Public Library where she teaches a writing program to teens. She has published historical romances and mysteries for Harlequin and Sonnet, self-published contemporary romantic mysteries and young adult books, and is now writing Regencies for Cerridwen Press. She lives in a creepy old farmhouse with her husband, a pack of unruly dogs and guppies too numerous to count (a heron recently ate 1 of the 3 koi in the ponds.)
After many years in the technical writing field, Barbara Miller built a career as a writer of Regency-set historicals under the name Laurel Ames. Oddly enough, much of her material is drawn from her experiences with horses and sheep on her farm in Western PA. The series of eight mysteries from Weavers Old Stand Press also draws heavily on farm memories, as do the Georgie books for younger readers. She is secretary of the long-standing Greensburg Writers Group, and a member of the program committee of Ligonier Valley Writers for which she presents many workshops. Book publications include twelve historical romances for Harlequin and Pocket Books and nine locally-set mysteries. She has also published four middle-grade books. Recent releases include Music Master, Two Hearts and Eye Walker from Cerridwen Press and a ninth Falls Bend Mystery called Shallow Graves.
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