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Elodia Strain

I was born in Fairbanks, Alaska and grew up as Elodia

Saavedra

in

Central California.

At age three I

read my

first

real book

,

Debbie's Visit

to

the

Countryside

.

After that,

I was hooked.

It was my high school English teacher who first

made me

believe that

maybe I could write about a Debbie of my own

someday, and

it was in

his class that I first

decided

I wanted

to be a writer.

Convinced that

practicality was key,

I majored in

a

dvertising

and minored

in English

at BYU, where I learned how to write

copy for advertisements

and even wrote an award-winning

advertisement touting the absorbency

of athletic sweatbands.

But w

hen

I was

diagnosed with an illness that left me hurting

and

heartbroken

,

I turned to my friends: books. The Debbies

I

read about now were a little

older and a lot funnier, and

I

learned

how powerful books

can be when they

combine

humor and

inspiratio

n.

It was then that I knew what I had to write. Authors around

the world were

giving me this gift, and I wanted to do the

same for others.

So

I took some

time away from writing ads

and

set out to write stories

with humor, warmth

,

and

a little

romanc

e.

I

hope so much that someone, somewhere

who may be

struggling with a

trial

or a trouble

may pick up something I

wrote and be given a laugh

,

or

a

moment where her heart is

touched. T

hen I

will

have done

the job I hope

to do as a

writer.

I

recently moved from

Spokane, Washington

to Utah where I live

with my

husband and

biggest supporter, Jacob.

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