Shaela Kay
Shaela Kay was born and raised near Seattle, WA. As a child, she was addicted to the written word, and her exhausted mother finally taught her to read when she was 4 years old so Shaela could read to herself. She learned to write shortly after, and wrote her first book at the age of 6.
A passion for books became a passion for plays, a.... more
Shaela Kay was born and raised near Seattle, WA. As a child, she was addicted to the written word, and her exhausted mother finally taught her to read when she was 4 years old so Shaela could read to herself. She learned to write shortly after, and wrote her first book at the age of 6.
A passion for books became a passion for plays, and she was heavily involved in school and community theatre growing up. Ms. Kay studied Theatre and English at Brigham Young University-Idaho, but left her studies when she met her sweetheart and started a family.
While she is widely read in various genres, her favorite books to read (and consequently write) are historical fiction, and is adamant that they are well-researched and as historically accurate as possible. "I love stories that carry me away to a foreign place and time. And if they can make me laugh and cry, that's even better." A hopeless romantic at heart, she also loves to read love stories, but squirms inside when they're too risque. Her goal is to write vivid, well-researched historical novels, and when romance is involved, she is determined that they be clean enough to let her teenage daughters read them unashamed.