Gender	Female
Occupation	Author of The Togi Tree
Location	Salt Lake City, UT
Introduction	Bethlene loves reading books of all kinds, especially children's novels that take her to another place. Growing up in a large family, they always made up worlds to play in, ideas coming from stories she’d read. She started writing when she stayed home to be a fulltime mom in Las Vegas and had lots of spare time. She wanted to try something new and make up stories her son might like to read. The first book took just over a year to write. Her husband and son dragged her to Salt Lake City. She kicked and screamed the whole way … preferring the desert heat over the snow and cold. She settled in, playing hard in the summer and hiding in the winter. She continued to write and found online friends to help her improve. During a trip to Phoenix over the holidays one year, her family stopped at the Grand Canyon South Rim, where inspiration struck for her second story- The Togi Tree. She wrote the first version in a month and improved it over the next year to be the fun adventure it is now. She lives in Salt Lake City with her fun, supportive husband, always-inquisitive son and fluffy dog Zeus, who thinks she can’t write unless he’s on top of her desk watching.
Interests	reading, writing, working in my yard, more reading and more writing.
Favorite movies	Pride & Prejudice, Transformers, Harry Potter
Favorite music	Gavin Rossdale, Josh Groban, Lifehouse
Favorite books	Pride & Prejudice, Persuasion, Twilight Saga, Septimus Heap series, Artemis Fowl Series, Coast Road