I used to be a big city girl -- after all, I lived in Los Angeles and graduated from New York University. In case you don't know, NYU is slap-dab in the middle of New York City. So, of course, I met a tall, blond, good-looking Texas on a blind date and got engaged to him four days later. We had a Christmas wedding and lived happily ever after.

And for a wedding present be gave me a revolver. Never was even close to one in my whole life before. But he taught me to shoot and do all the other things that befitted the wife of a Texan. It was fun. Cross off big cities. One of the things we found we had in common was writing. Of course, we expected to write the GREAT American novel. Didn't work out that way, but we had some successes. The Southern Blade sold to Columbia Pictures and became a "B" movie called A Time for Killing. We sold westerns steadily -- one every two years, while working. He made industrial motion pictures, and I taught English and American history. After he passed on, I began writing romances. It was the only way I could get romance now, and I really did -- and do -- enjoying everything about writing them. My first one was Design for Love, the rest you can find in the Books section of on this site. Shirley loves to hear from readers! Please feel free to email her or sign her guestbook!