AUTHOR BIO:

DEBORAH RANEY dreamed of writing a book since the summer she read Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books and discovered that a Kansas farm girl could, indeed, grow up to be a writer. Her almost forty books have garnered multiple industry awards including the RITA® Award, HOLT Medallion, National Readers' Choice Award, Carol Award, and have four times been Christy Award finalists. Her first novel, A Vow to Cherish, shed light on the ravages of Alzheimer's disease and inspired the highly acclaimed World Wide Pictures film of the same title.

Deborah is on faculty for several national writers' conferences and served on the executive board of the 2500-member American Christian Fiction Writers organization for 18 years. She is a transplant to Southeast Missouri with her husband, Ken Raney, having moved from their native Kansas to be closer to kids and grandkids. They love road trips, Friday garage sale dates, and breakfast on the screened porch overlooking their wooded backyard. Visit Deb on the Web at www.deborahraney.com.

Suggested introduction for speaking events:

Deborah Raney is probably best known for her first novel, A Vow to Cherish, the inspiration for the award-winning film of the same title from World Wide Pictures. She has written for imprints of Random House, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins, among others. Deb's newest releases from Raney Day Press are Who Touches the Mountains and Who Stirs Up the Sea. Deb has written more than forty books and is thoroughly enjoying her career as a novelist. However, her first and most cherished calling is wife to Ken, mother to their four children, and Mimi to fourteen precious grandchildren. Native Kansans, Ken and Deb are transplants to Southeast Missouri where both of their daughters' families live. A few of Deb's favorite things are: coffee mugs, rainy days, screened porches, e-biking, Friday garage sale dates with her husband, houseplants in pretty pots, kaleidoscopes, memories of Paris, colored pencils, and her fourteen grandkids in any combination (but especially one-on-one).

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