Babs BookMark Issue 2 | Page 83

Ciana Stone TB: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Sure. I'm married, with two children and four grandchildren. I live in Florida but long to move to a place that has seasons because I miss autumn and spring. I'm an artist and designer and have designed book covers for the last fifteen years, for primarily romance writers and e-publishers. I love animals of the furry kind, get the creeps over reptiles, am not too fond of frogs but adore birds. I love to read almost any genre but sure love those cowboys, country boys and western charmers. TB: Was there a certain time in your life you knew you wanted to write? Yes. When my first child went off to college and my youngest was busy being a junior in highschool and I finally had time to do things I wanted to do. I had been what my husband called a reading addict my entire life and had often wondered if I could write. That year I gave it a try and was hooked. TB: What are you currently working on? Right now I'm involved in a new series, Heartbreakers & Heroes. This series takes place in Cotton Creek, Texas, a fictional town I created for another series I wrote, Honky Tonk Angels. In H &H, the heroes are all military men who somehow end up in Cotton Creek. They all have pasts and some are quite tragic, but they all have something they are trying to learn to come to peace with. And they're all men who don't believe that happily ever after is real and even if it is, it isn't meant for them.