PAULA BLAIS GORGAS

Paula Blais Gorgas, native Rhode Islander, lived in the Green Country of eastern Oklahoma with her husband Chet, a retired Navy Commander turned pro-golfer. Together they had four grown sons and a dozen grandchildren. She now lives with their youngest son and his wife in Colorado.

Before her marriage, Paula earned a BA degree in Spanish and French, then used her linguistic abilities as an intelligence analyst at the National Security Agency. Once she and her new husband started raising a family, however, she looked for a new career and found it in her first love, books. Always an avid reader, she decided to pursue her childhood love of storytelling and read dozens of "how to" books on the art of fiction writing, as well as many of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century English language classic novels. While teaching herself through her reading, she published many short stories, both romance and fantasy. Several of them have been collected in an award-winning anthology, OTHER WORLDS. She also took one college correspondence course in writing. The book she wrote for this Oklahoma University class earned an A, won the Golden Heart Award from the Romance Writers of America, and became her first published novel, COURT OF HONOR.

Meanwhile, Chet retired from the Navy after twenty-five years service, and the family moved to Poteau, a small town in eastern Oklahoma, his home state. He went to work for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Paula supplemented his income by taking a job as the children's librarian at the local library. She also continued to write and in the 1990s, with their four sons grown, Chet decided to pursue his lifelong dream of playing professional golf. He joined the Heartland Senior Players Tour, and with laptop computer in hand Paula left the library and followed him. In the next fifteen years while Chet played golf, Paula wrote what she loved: romance and fantasy stories.

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PUBLICATIONS

CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS:
Little Lost Leprechaun • The Perfect Purple Present

JUVENILE & YOUNG ADULT:
Court of Honor • Earth Magic • Secret of the Crystal Dragon

FANTASY, PARANORMAL, & ROMANCE:
Dreamtime • Other Worlds