Biography
Barbara Cool Lee grew up on a ranch in California, and pretty much everything in her life ends up in one of her books in one form or another. As a child she was fascinated by medieval legends [Tales of the Ariane] and California history [Pajaro Bay]. She flirted with the idea of becoming a doctor [Sweet Blood], but quickly discovered she was too squeamish. She worked her way through college as everything from an order-taker in a Chinese restaurant [In Deep Water] to a ride operator at an oceanfront amusement park [Under the Boardwalk]. She was accepted to law school but decided she really preferred storytelling to torts, naïvely thinking writing books would be easy and success as a novelist would take a year or two [!] to achieve. She worked in faculty services at a university, proofreading manuscripts and designing databases, while writing in her car on her lunch hour. She now happily devotes her time to caring for her family and writing.
Press
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"Colleagues pool together to send staff member to national writing conference"
"Romance novels almost always have happy endings"
"Staff member wins national romance writing contest"
"Seven years of lunch time laboring yields award for romance writing"
