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Alejandro Don’t call my name…Alejandro. Amazingly, I don’t even get irritated when I hear that anymore because I now had colleagues who annoyed me in new ways. Meeting a woman was never a goal for me. I’d be expected to communicate, and it was more than enough just dealing with the guys at work every day. But then I met a woman who went against all of that, one I’d give anything just to hear her talk at all. That’s why I used the sign language I’d learned in high school for my best friend to engage in conversation—willingly. Now we had our own private conversations. Ones I even initiated. Vail Being deaf didn’t define me—being me defined me. I wanted to be seen for who I was inside and outside, but how do you do that when people have already made up their minds based on a disability? Moving away from my friends and family was a risk, but it was one I was willing to take. Plus, I had my best friend with me, so I wasn’t completely alone. I just didn’t expect people to be as friendly and helpful as they were here. Within an hour, I had a place to work, and people I felt could end up being good friends. Even the cranky cop I almost knocked over didn’t treat me differently. He was just the same as he was to everyone, except he did it with sign language. But everyone meets people at some point who make them want to take a risk they’d never considered before.
Author
I’m a British author who grew up all over the world. My parents were diplomats, so we were posted to all of the corners of the earth and it was a blast. Some wouldn’t seem so awesome if you heard about them, but my parents always made it a fun experience and it molded my brother and I into who we are today. I live in Wiltshire in the west country of the UK. At random times of the day, I’ll hear a moo from the fields around me, or get a whiff of that…uhhh…’country air’, and I love it! I might not have grown up in the UK, but I’m a British girl to the bone (regardless of the suspicious whiffs coming in from the fields). I’m a single mother with a son who is nearing his teenage phase. Maybe he’s reached it early? Who knows. But he’s awesome and has a personality and sense of humor that I can only attribute to my family. We’re slightly bonkers, we have a wicked sense of humor and we find the positives in every situation. I’m so proud to be his mum and to watch him grow and mature. Writing was something that I’d always done. I had a teacher in the third grade who always set us the task of writing a story and making it into a book every weekend. After I left school, I kept this up and wrote as often as I could or just plotted out books. This evolved into me taking the plunge and publishing my first book in 2016 and I’ve been typing ever since. I’m proud to be an Indie Author, and I absolutely love writing out my crazy Providence characters and the more complex ones in my other series’. It doesn’t matter if it’s romantic comedy or something with more suspense – so long as it has a HEA I’ll do it! I’ve got so many more planned, so the best is yet to come.
