Hi and welcome to my site! I’m thrilled you’re here. I’m from Alabama, but grew up all over the south from Tennesee to Mississippi and back to Alabama again. I always loved to telling stories as a kid to anyone who would listen, including a menagerie of cats, dogs, birds and hamsters.
I was the shy type, you know, the book worm all the cheerleaders torment during school. I was also the “band director’s daughter” which is akin to queen geek- so not an honor let me tell you.
I had a very violent home life as a child. Books were my escape, my sanctuary. I read everything I could get my hands on, whether or not it was age appropriate and the spookier the better.
Eventually, my parents divorced and I moved back to Haleyville to finish high school. At sixteen, I met my high school sweetheart, Jackie. He was a football player with a black belt in karate from a neighboring school. He was the classic bad boy, still is. At seventeen, a month before my high school graduation, I became a teenage mom when our son L.J. was born. I put my dreams on hold.
Through sheer grit and alot of help from his family, I got my diploma and enrolled in college with a grant as a Cosmetology student and went to work full time as an ice cream girl in a local restaurant (In case you wonder, I was the one who made all the shakes and frozen concoctions like they had in the old soda shops in the fifties.) I would have rather taken journalism classes or something writing related, but it was more important to provide for my son and help my fiance finish school so I chose a quick program.
Between a full time job, the baby, and full time college classes that I hated, I buckled under the pressure, dropped out and entered the school of LIFE, opting to work full time and be with my baby. In ’95 on my birthday our oldest daughter Anna was born, followed by another daughter Kayla in ’98. My dream of writing was lost in a shuffle of work, bottles, diapers and survival. I kept making up stories, but they remained in my head and on random pieces of scratch paper.
Then in 2002, my husband caught a violent strain of the flu which didn’t respond to fast working antibiotics. While in the hospital, he was diagnosed with type two Diabetes. For three weeks, I watched over him day and night, giving medicine and trying to give him enough fluids to stay hydrated. He doesn’t remember those weeks; he was unconsious for most of it.
I started writing again and researching his illness during those early morning hours to keep from going crazy with worry. Alot has happened in the years between. The kids are teenagers and my time is more my own. Writing has always given me such peace and knowing. The characters that were once silent refuse to leave me until I tell their story and they live in a world of paranormal chaos.
As Brynna Curry I write light paranormal romance and suspense. The first book in my Elemental Magic series was released Monday December 7th 2009. Since then I’ve contracted the series with Lyrical Press, Inc. Fire’s Ice, the fifth and final book will release in June 18, 2012. Click the [Books] tab for excerpts.
So, now I write because I love it. I judge writing contests because I enjoy helping others. I review books of all sorts for You Gotta Read Reviews, moderator for the guest blog there and the review editor for Apollo’s Lyre. I still work my 8-5 secretary job and am fortunate to work for great people.
Tada gar irraccht. Nothing without effort.
