Mimi Riser has been an actress, model, clown, belly-dancer, jewelry designer, editor, and publisher, but her first and foremost love is writing. She specializes in offbeat tales where laughter reigns and good always triumphs--but she makes her characters really work for their happy endings. Her books have been said to read like a snowball rolling downhill, gathering size and speed as it goes. But if you think her stories are crazy, you should see her life. Once devout city people, she and her husband exchanged the hustle and bustle of Philadelphia a lifetime or two ago for the natural, rugged more...