Naomi Patterson was born in Verdun, France. She received her Masters from UT in Austin, Texas. For the next twenty-five years she worked on-staff and freelance for advertising agencies, video production companies and corporations as a writer, producer and director based out of Dallas and Houston. She is retired from film and video work and now resides in New Braunfels. She was a charter member of the New Braunfels Writers Guild and is active with River City Ink - a Fiction Writers Group. Naomi has two other books set for release in 2013.