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Many years ago, Holly read a historical romance novel where the hero, after many trials and tribulations, sailed across a perilous ocean to profess his love to the heroine—and together, they lived happily-ever-after. It was beautiful. Holly, her heart full of love and hope, leaped excitedly from the couch, where she’d been reading, and declared, with some uncertainty, to her two small children, “I can do this!”— Write a love story, not sail on a perilous ocean. 

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And that’s what she’s doing. Transcribing the stories that come alive in her heart and mind onto paper, hoping to fill another reader’s heart full of love and hope. 

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Some of Holly’s earliest writings included an eighth-grade poetry assignment about the view outside her bedroom window. The piece won her a free kid’s meal at the local Ponderosa. In the years following, she penned enough angsty teen poetry to self-publish a small chapbook on the high school’s Macintosh computers. She bound the handful of pages herself and distributed them to her closest friends. A single copy still exists tucked away in a small trunk of treasures. 

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Fast forward some years, through the epiphany on her couch, and Holly attended Oswego State University, where she completed a B.S. in English and Education and minored in Creative Writing. She published in and edited for the University’s literary magazine, the Great Lake Review, and was honored to be nominated twice and become a finalist for the Dean’s Writing Award. 

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Holly has been a substitute teacher, a special education aide, and a copy editor — often all at the same time. Today, she is earning her MFA in writing popular fiction from Seton Hill University. Her favorite moments are the quiet hours she spends creating stories and sipping hot vanilla chai tea. 

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Holly Weeden has published a couple of short stories and is a member of Romance Writers of America. She is currently on a quest for agent representation.