Michelle Beattie (edit name/settings)

Award winning author Michelle Beattie was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and raised on her grandfather's homestead near Beaumont, Alberta. She didn't fall in love with reading until after high school and then turned to historical romances, mostly westerns, for her romance fix. If you ask her why westerns, she'll say it's because of the chivalry. Of course men in boots and cowboy hats didn't hurt either!

It took 12 years and four completed manuscripts before she sold her first book, What A Pirate Desires, a historical pirate adventure. Since then she's sold two more, all part of her pirate series. Why pirates? Two words. Johnny Depp.

Not one who likes to be limited, Michelle likes to write any story that pulls at her heart and bulldozes its way through her mind, demanding to be told. And so, besides westerns and pirates, she also wrote a contemporary novel, Love By Accident, that takes place in her beautiful home province, Alberta.

DOUBLE WINNER OF THE STAR CONTEST FOR BEST SELF-PUBLISHED BOOKS OF 2011. LOVE BY ACCIDENT WON THE PARANORMAL CATEGORY AND ANOTHER CHANCE WON THE HISTORICAL CATEGORY.

(from Amazon author page - from the author or her representative)