Happily, the man who swept me off my feet consults with financial types and understands the bottom line. I hosted a show in the eighties called Desperate & Dateless, and while I was never locked in an apartment for a week with a webcam rolling as she was, I did fall in love. Like Olivia in 7 DAYS AND SEVEN NIGHTS, I’ve done live talk radio. Today I have a growing GWTW collection, and the time I spoke at he Margaret Mitchell House was an incredible thrill.lastĪfter college I worked in radio, television, and film. For a while I re-read Margaret Mitchell’s classic yearly, saw the movie whenever it played within twenty miles, and could quote large passages from memory. I went to the University of Georgia after reading Gone with the Wind one too many times. And they’ve had a major impact on my life. I’ve been reading ever since.īooks, in all forms, are one of my greatest pleasures and best forms of escape. Convinced that you were expected to know how to read BEFORE you showed up for school, I forced a neighbor friend to teach me to read at the age of five. It’s hard to be a type-A personality when you grow up in such a laid back environment, but I managed. I went, appropriately enough, to Sunshine Elementary School where recess and art class sometimes took place on the beach, and the highlight of every school year was the annual fish broil.

Pete Beach within spitting distance of the Gulf of Mexico. I was born in St.Petersburg, Florida and grew up on St.

I'm proud of all my books and perhaps best known for my 'Ten Beach Road' titles including the USA Today bestsellers, Ten Beach Road and The House on Mermaid Point, and for While We Were Watching Downton Abbey. I write novels that explore friendship, self-discovery and the challenges life brings us, leavened with a touch of humor.

Ocean beach by wendy wax