You Meet The Nicest People In The Strangest Places

Seated in a funeral home at the visitation of a distant relative of my husband, we waited to join the end of a very long line of people going through the receiving line. Striking up a conversation with the couple next to us in the pew, it turned out that the woman and my husband were related: third or fourth cousins by marriage and several times removed or something like that. During that conversation, I found out that the woman next to me was an author. Over the next few minutes, I bought her book, "Patches On The Same Quilt," booked her to speak at the PAA Writer's Group and made a friend. Her name is Becky Mushko.

To date, Becky has given three talks in front of my writers group and is a wealth of information for seasoned as well as novice writers. She lives on a farm in Penhook, VA. with a bunch of animals: horses, cats and dogs. Her love of animals, country living and Southern Virginia come alive on the pages of her books.