About Betty Jo. Hmm . . . what can I tell you? I do what I love and love what I do, and for me, that would be? Write, of course.

I've made up stories all my life, although as a child, they took the form of "pretend" with me acting them out, playing all the parts, and a desire to become an actress. I was in high school when I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that goal was more attainable or realistic than my dream of becoming a movie star.

So I went to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, for a B.S. in Elementary Education, followed by an M.A. from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, and twenty-three years and four children later, I bought a coffee cup with the saying, "Success is doing what you love," and quit teaching to write.

I'd written dozens of diet and nutrition articles for magazines such as Woman's Day and Reader's Digest, sold stories to children's magazines including Jack and Jill and U.S. Kids, and sold my first children's fiction book--Ice Cream for Breakfast--to Willowisp Press, so it was time to do what I'd desired all along.

Since then, I've sold fifteen more books to an assortment of publishers. As you explore my website, you'll learn that several of my novels were award winners.

I am also teaching again, instructing two Writers' Online Writing Courses (Writers' Digest) and another for Barnes and Noble University. I enjoy helping adults who want to write for children learn what I discovered on my own, the hard way.

A subject on all our minds is the safety of our children, and bullying in schools today is becoming increasingly dangerous, so please take a look at Bully Brigade and B-Force, two books Susan Scott, illustrator, and I recommend for use in every schoolroom. And if you agree, please recommend these books to principals, counselors, and teachers in your children's schools.

Who is Betty Jo Schuler? Writer, reader, Christian, teacher, wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, friend, Hoosier, and member of Romance Writers of America, Chick Lit Chapter of RWA, and Electronically Published Internet Connection. Not necessarily in that order.

My wish for my readers is that you, too, may do what you love and love what you do. And on days when this isn't possible, read a book with a happy ending.