Melinda Curtis

My Non-Traditional Bio

Melinda grew up on an isolated, California sheep ranch, where sightings of passing mountain lions had been recorded and yet she was allowed to roam the 50-acres un-accompanied as soon as she could walk.  Being a brave and rather optimistic - clueless of the danger - sort, she took to playing "what if" games.  What if the mountain lion comes by while I'm picking up firewood at the edge of the forest?  What if my plastic boat sinks in the sheep pond?  What if it never stops raining and the road gets so muddy we're trapped?  It led to her fascination with creating stories where she could answer the "what ifs".

Melinda spends days chained to her desk trying to figure out new ways to say "He made her heart pound."  That might sound relatively boring, but the mental challenge keeps her on top of her game so her three kids and college sweetheart husband don't often get the best of her. 

My Traditional Bio

Although Melinda has lived in Georgia and Texas, she's a California girl at heart. Her earliest memories are of life on an isolated 50-acre sheep ranch in rural Sonoma County, California. Picture rolling hills covered in brown grass, a eucalyptus forest, a long gravel driveway lined with plump sheep and no sidewalks. It was a big deal to drive into town on a one-lane road in a ramshackle, bubble-fendered pickup for an ice cream.

Flash forward to this century.

Melinda lives in the California's hot central valley with her husband - her basketball playing college sweetheart. With three kids the couple has done the soccer thing, the karate thing, the dance thing, the Little League thing and, of course, the basketball thing.

While working toward writing paying a full-time salary (hey, she can dream, can't she?), Melinda runs a successful marketing consulting business, juggles the demands of family and "things", arranges sleeping pillows for two cats and allows two big Labs believe they're protecting her when someone knocks on the door.

Melinda loves writing romances about women who don't realize how strong they are until a hero comes along to show them, while capturing the wry humorous power struggle of falling in love - because, really, who lets the man have the last word?