BIOGRAPHY

Traveling across this vast country of ours has allowed me vantage points to view awe-inspiring Alpine peaks, ribbons of blue highways through grain-covered prairies, monuments to great leaders throughout our history, and skyscrapers stretching into the heavens in cities from coast to coast. But the glaciated flatlands of Northwest Ohio always draw me back to where my heart calls home.

Since childhood amidst the wheat and cornfields, my sole addiction was to the written word. I created my first novel in junior high and haven’t stopped putting pen to paper (fingers to keyboard).

During many years on the staff of Bowling Green State University’s internationally renowned Browne Popular Culture Library, I handled thousands upon thousands of romance and other genre fiction books, dating back to the nickel weeklies and dime novels of the late 1800s, all feeding my avocation to become and author.

As time passed, I joined writers’ groups, attended conferences and workshops sponsored by the Romance Writers of America, read books on how to write, immersed myself in the Internet, and finally, submitted my manuscript to agents and publishers. But neither they nor I could find my niche.

That’s when a writer-friend suggested, “Why don’t you self publish?” Once planted, the idea took firm root and wouldn't let go. With a little seed money, a bit of nurturing, the support of my family, good friends to lend a hand, and connections to the right professionals Only in the Movies became a reality—and was selected as the first-place winner of the Ohio Professional Writers 2012 Communication Competition in the Fiction: Novel category.

In Only on the Radio we return to the fertile farmlands of Northwest Ohio where lives intertwine to form an intricate tapestry of romance and intrigue.

Jean Ann Geist