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BJ Stone, author and former Fort Worth school teacher,
mother, grandmother and wife, has been writing for
several years. Two of her books were sold in the same
week in 1998: Girl on the Bluff to Eakin Press in
Austin and Ola's Wake to Henry Holt in New York. She
has stories in two anthologies as well as other
publications.
"As a child," BJ Stone says, "I was a tomboy. I
skinned up trees, climbed over the roofs of garages
and sheds, raced my bicycle into piles of gravel, slid
on my face and elbows, dived from the top of a
haystack almost breaking my neck, and even jumped from
my house holding an open umbrella. I thought I could
fly! As an adult I've camped along the Big Sur,
parasailed over the Caribbean, white water rafted
through the Royal Gorge, and skied in the Rockies,
where finally I had to slow down after breaking a leg
on the slopes at age 62. But the memories of all the
crazy things I've done have found their way into my
stories, some published, some not. I now enjoy quieter
things - movies, reading, writing, singing in the
church choir and associating with children of all
ages."
Tuesday Critique Group at the Four-Star Coffee Bar in Fort Worth, TX.
(Seated left to right: Christine Ford, Sue Ward, Kathy Lay, Jan Peck, B.J.Stone, Cerelle Woods, David Davis.
Standing left to right: Debra Deur, Diane Roberts)
Please feel free to visit my writing organization web site, The North Texas Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators,
at www.scbwi-northtx.org.
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