Bio
Current as of August 2008.
Bio
Rachel Ann Nunes learned to read when she was four, beginning a lifetime fascination with the written word.
She avidly devoured books then and still reads everything she can lay hands on, from children’s stories to
science articles. She began writing in the seventh grade and is now the author of twenty-eight published books,
including the popular Ariana series and the picture book
Daughter of a King, voted best children’s book of the
year in 2003 by the Association of Independent LDS Booksellers. Her picture book
The Secret of the King was
chosen in Utah by the Governor's Commission on Literacy to be awarded to all Utah grade schools as part of the
Read With A Child For 20 Minutes Per Day program. Her novel
The
Independence Club was a finalist for the 2007 Whitney Award.
Rachel served an LDS mission to Portugal and
loves to visit every few years to practice her
Portuguese. She and her husband, TJ, live in Utah and are the parents
of six children—three boys and three girls. Rachel loves camping with her family, traveling and meeting new people, and,
of course, writing. As a stay-at-home mother of six, it isn't easy to find time to write, but she will trade washing dishes
or weeding the garden for an hour at the computer any day! Her only rule about writing is to never eat chocolate at
the computer. "Since I love chocolate and writing," she jokes, "my family might never see me again."
Rachel writes Monday through Friday in a home office, often with a child on her lap. She takes frequent breaks
from writing to build Lego towers, practice phonics, or jump on the trampoline with the kids.
In addition to writing and raising children,
Rachel is the founder and president of
LDStorymakers, a group of published
authors whose goal is to promote literacy and
raise the quality of genre literature.
Rachel's newest novel, Eyes of a Stranger
is due out in early September 2008. For more information or to join her e-mailing list, visit
http://www.RachelAnnNunes.com.
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