L.L. Helland

I live in San Antonio, Texas with my husband and two grown sons'. Our eldest son-Jon graduated from MIT Cambridge 2007, and our youngest son-Chris is a Senior at TCU Fort Worth. My twin sister also lives in San Antonio, and my niece-Trisha lives in California with Hugh Hefner, and on Aug. 15th of 2012 had a prophylactic double mastectomy-she cares the BRAC2 gene for breast cancer. I'm a Registered Nurse by education, and a writer by passion. I started off writing Historical/Romance/Fiction and then made a huge jump to juvenile/fiction from the suggestion of my twin sister. I have two books, The Hellandback Kids: Be Careful What You Wish For is for middle grade readers, and has received several awards: The Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Mom's Choice Award, The Royal Dragonfly Award, The National Indie Excellence Award and just recently Gold in Readers Favorite. The four main characters in The Hellandback Kids are based off of Jon, Chris, Trisha and Brittany who along with Trisha graduated from Texas A&M. Brittany then went into the work force for several years and then back to college at Notre Dame for business school.

Redwine Hill was just released this past summer and has received: The Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Gold in Readers Favorite.