Award-winning author Dee Lloyd credits her upbringing in Timmins, a Northern Ontario gold mining town, for her love of dramatic scenery and her conviction that nothing is impossible to a person who is willing to work for it. When she was thirteen years old, she told a reporter for the Timmins Daily Press that she was going to be a writer. Many careers—ranging from sales clerk in a record store to teacher of literature and creative writing—and years later, she is doing just that.

She is fascinated by electronic publishing and the fresh new settings and story lines, which this new medium encourages. Married to Terry Sheils, EPPIE award-winning author of horror, humorous mystery, and historical novels, Dee states, “Writing is as essential as breathing in our house.”

A former Senior Editor with LTD Books, Dee is a popular speaker at Romance and Mystery conferences. She enjoys coordinating her Library In Your Hand workshops in which authors introduce readers to the pleasures of reading novels on handheld readers, PDAs and Pocket PCs.

Dee’s Ties That Bind won an EPPIE Award for Best Contemporary Romance.