How Jane Austen Kept her Cool by Maria Grace

Maria Grace has been writing fiction since she was ten years old, but her early works are contentedly residing in a file drawer and are unlikely to see the light of day again, something many people are grateful for. She took a hiatus from writing after finishing five file-drawer novels in high school to pursue her doctorate in Educational Psychology. She returned to her original love, fiction writing, after 16 years of university teaching. She has one husband and one grandchild, two master's degrees and two black belts, three sons, four undergraduate majors, five nieces, is in her sixth year of blogging on Random Pieces of Fascination, has developed seven websites, attended eight English country dance balls, sewed nine Regency era costumes, and lived with ten cats.