Author Kathleen D. Bailey

I'm a journalist and novelist living in Southern New Hampshire. I was a child int he 50s, a teen in the 60s, a young adult in the 70s and a young mom in the 80s. It's been a rich, colorful time to grow up and I've enjoyed all of it and written about most of it. I've wanted to write fiction since I began reading it, at the age of five, and my dream was fulfilled -- wait for it -- at the age of 69. That's how long God took to get ahold of me and get me in the right place to experience success. I published my first Christian historical romance, "Westward Hope," with Pelican Book Group in 2019; the sequel, "Settlers' Hope," in July 2020; two related novellas, "The Logger's Christmas Bride" and "The Widow's Christmas Miracle" in December 2019 and 2020 respectively; and just saw the publication of the last "Western Dreams" book, "Redemption's Hope," in July 2022. I had always seen nonfiction as a way to pay the bills, but I wrote two nonfiction local history books, "Past and Present Exeter New Hampshire" and "New Hampshire War Monuments: The Stories behind the Stones," both with Arcadia Publishing, and somewhere along the way I fell in love with nonfiction. It's the same dynamic -- telling stories -- and I hope to be around to tell many more. I live in New Hampshire with my husband David and have two grown daughters.