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Gender	Female
Industry	Publishing
Occupation	Writer
Location	Coos Bay, Oregon, United States
Introduction	I began my writing career as a journalist writing hard news, feature articles and humorous essays. I have sold short stories to magazines in the horror, confession, religious and humor markets. To date I have published a humorous mystery, three romances, two romantic suspense novels, two paranormal mysteries a straight mystery, a paranormal romantic suspense novella, three novellas and a non-fiction book about my adventures as a volunteer at the San Diego Sheriff’s department. I have two more mysteries due to be published in early 2013. I teach creative writing classes at Southwestern Oregon Community College where live in Coos Bay, Oregon with my husband and two huge Labrador Retrievers. Visit my websites: www.carlenedater.com, www.themysterystartshere.com and www.manicreaders.com/CarleneRaeDater www.Facebook.com/CarleneraeDater, www.Twitter.com/CarleneRaeDater
Interests	Reading, dogs, movies, dogs, television, dogs, entertaining, dogs, pistol shooting and dogs!
Favorite movies	Breakfast at Tiffanys Fargo Mame ...oh I could go on all day!
Favorite music	Jazz and some classical
Favorite books	Too numerous to mention but of course, To Kill a Mockingbird.