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Gracie was born in London, and raised and educated in New Zealand. She lives in an RV in a state of cheerful chaos with her husband, a German Shepherd who snores like a buzz saw, and a cat who ignores birds but steals their bread.
As a teenager Gracie dreamed of being an investigative journalist a la Superman but settled for the—supposedly—less risky career of elementary school teaching. However, when she discovered that the adults she met came up with far more interesting fairytales than did her primary school students, she realized she should have stuck to her guns.
So she changed careers. But not to "mild-mannered reporter". She has since worked as a counselor, office manager, technical help-desk operator, editor of a local newspaper, and technical documentation writer in the electronics industry. She also spent 2011 as part of the editorial team responsible for Romance Writers of New Zealand’s monthly magazine, Heart To Heart.
In the night hours, Gracie writes for fun—mostly romantic suspense. She dreams—mostly things she'd never tell her mother. And she reads. Oh yeah. She reads, and reads, and reads...
Sad, but True
"The first European to find NZ was a Dutch sea-captain who was looking for something else ... It takes its name from a province of Holland to which it does not bear the remotest likeness, and is usually regarded as the antipodes of England, but is not. Taken possession of by an English navigator, whose action was afterwards reversed by his country's rulers, it was only annexed by the English Government which did not want it, to keep it from the French who did." William Pember Reeves 1898
Did you know?
**In the film Star Trek: First Contact, when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papua New Guinea are clearly visible—but New Zealand is missing.
**Rugby remains the most popular spectator sport in New Zealand. Golf, however, is the most popular participation sport. There are more golf courses in New Zealand per head of population than any other country in the world.
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