ABOUT THE AUTHOR Judith Sessler's love of writing began as a child. She wrote poetry on napkins and short stories in her school notebooks. Her first published works were essays and magazine articles when she was in her early twenties. She took a writing hiatus for five years when her family moved across country and she began a career as a restaurant manager. When they moved back East, she discovered her husband, inadvertently, had discarded the box which contained everything she had ever written. Judith was so devastated that she was unable to write another thing for twenty-five years.Then unexpectedly, she woke in the middle of the night with a title in her head. That was how it always happened - waking up at night with a title in her head, and the stories just flowed from there. The rest is history. Judith's books run the gamut from modern slice-of-life fiction, to romantic fiction, to short story collections, to a juvenile time-travel series, and now to this latest endeavor, GOOD GRIEF, GRACIE. She continues to write every day in her "office"...Starbucks, with many thanks, as always, to her 'family' of baristas extraordinaire. you can visit her @judithsessler.com