Barbara M. Hodges lives in Nipomo, CA, a small town on the central coast. She shares her life with her husband Jeff and two basset hounds, Ophelia and Hamlet, as well as with Wallace a sassy orange tabby cat. Barbara is the author or co-author of five published novels; four fantasy; The Blue Flame, The Emerald Dagger, The Silver Angel, Stargazer’s Children co-written with Maggie Pucillo and Jennifer Des Plantes and one science fiction, Shadow Worlds co-written with Darrell Bain. Barbara also has stories in the anthologies, Aleatory's Junction and Scattered Hearts. A Spiral of Echoes, a paranormal romance, co-written with Maggie Pucillo will be released May 2010 from Chalet Publishers. When she is not writing she enjoys getting away in their motor home to local NASCAR races.     

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