Leslie Kelly was one of our first to be published and now has more than 20 novels to her credit.

Each year more of our members become published authors.

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.

The first one I was real close. You've got to give Henry a lot of credit. He fought it all the way down till we were on the ground. I had it and he stuck his hand in between. He made a good play. He waited till the last minute to stick his hand through there and he got it.

Kelly and Donald really set the tone. We wanted to do everything possible to get this one for them. For four years, they've done everything they could to help the program.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.