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A Featured Author
for March 2010

Glenda Poulter


Welcome Home
       

Shelby Livingston left home thirty years ago, vowing never to permanently return. But she’s tired of her itinerant lifestyle as a photojournalist and is ready to settle down and stay in one place. When she learns of a position on the staff of a magazine near her hometown of Yancey, SC, she decides to bid on it and returns for an interview just in time for her 30th high school reunion.

Memories of her senior year in high school flood back. She remembers all the pain she felt as the Six – Howie, Carolyn, Melissa, Kara, Naomi, and Shelby – were split apart, first through betrayal and then through departure. Shelby has to face

 
the ghosts and the demons from her past. Will she be able to forgive them, living and dead, so that she can finally settle down in one place?




Glenda Poulter's Biography


“How long have you been writing?” is a question often asked of authors. Glenda Poulter’s answer is “As long as I can remember.” Glenda was three or four years old when her mother, desperate for some peace and quiet, handed Glenda a piece of paper and some crayons and asked her to draw a picture. Instead, Glenda drew a story.

Glenda has been writing ever since. Her short stories and poetry were published in her high school magazine, where she dreamed of one day being a professional writer. But that dream was put on hold when she married a career Air Force man shortly out of high school. She had two children, Kaycee and Scott, during the twenty-two years she was married. Glenda’s writing during that time was limited to prolific journal entries and short stories written to entertain the children.

In 2005, after her divorce from her husband, Glenda came bursting out of the closet to no surprise of most of the people who knew her. She met Lisa in March, 2006, and they have been together ever since. Early in their relationship, Lisa asked Glenda what her dreams were. “I always wanted to be a writer” was Glenda’s answer. “Write me a story” became Lisa’s mantra. Glenda wrote Welcome Home (after several false starts) to shut Lisa up. It didn’t work. Lisa still urges Glenda to write more and more.

Glenda and Lisa live in the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina with their three cats and two dogs. Glenda’s day job as a Customer Service Representative helps keep the lights on and food on the table so she can keep on writing. Some of her hobbies include photography, painting, bird watching, and playing Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook.

If you would like to contact Glenda, you are welcome to email her at imtogfer@gmail.com; join her yahoogroup, GlendaPoulter@yahoogroups.com; or friend her at Facebook.