The Sky's The Limit by Charlene Keel

Charlene Keel

    

I've wanted to be a writer ever since I could hold a pencil and understood what a book was, and I never wanted to be anything else. I started getting paid to write when I was 21 and have written just about everything--press releases, short stories, novels, how-to books, dialogue, outlines and episodes for daytime and primetime TV, film treatments and screen adaptations of novels, magazine articles and celebrity interviews. I've ghostwritten screenplays, novelizations of screenplays and autobiographies for corporate moguls. One of my books, RITUALS (Dell), became the basis of the first continuing dramatic TV series produced specifically for syndication. My TV credits also include multiple episodes of FANTASY ISLAND and DAYS OF OUR LIVES.

I most enjoy writing novels (especially historicals), screenplay adaptations of novels, and recently a new YA supernatural romance-adventure series, The Tracks, which includes DARK TERRITORY (July, 2011) and GHOST CROWN (June 2012) for HCI Teens; and I