Jane Sevier http://www.janesevier.com

As soon as Jane Sevier was old enough to hold a pencil, she knew she wanted to write. As an award-winning feature writer, she covered fields as varied as artificial intelligence, the arts, the environment, and international affairs and traveled on assignment to such exotic locales as Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Texarkana, Texas. Now her job is writing fiction. Her first manuscript, THE QUETZAL'S TALE, a thriller, has finaled in the British Crime Writers' Debut Dagger, Washington Romance Writers' Marlene, and the Writer's League of Texas competitions. Jane was made in Tennessee but born in France. After a stint in Germany, her family came home to Tennessee when she was three. In her grown-up life, Jane has lived in Nashville, Dallas, Paris (France), and Washington, D.C. She now calls Austin, Texas, home, and she shares her 1920s house with her husband, four children, and four cats.