"When I die I may not go to heaven, I don't know if they let Cowgirls in.
If they don't just let me go to Texas, Texas is as close as I've been."

"Texas When I Die" by Tanya Tucker

Mae Nunn says that old country song really sums up the way she feels about her home state of Texas. She grew up in Houston, attended Kilgore College where she was a member of the famed Kilgore Rangerettes, and then completed her Communications degree at the University of Texas in Austin. She was content to spend her life in the Lone Star State.

But God had other plans. In 1989 Mae met a transplanted Englishman living in Atlanta and she hung up her spurs to become a southern belle. Today she and husband Michael make their home on a plantation in Georgia. Ok, maybe it's not a plantation, but it's pretty big!

Mae recently retired after 30 years with an air express carrier and is loving life as a full time author. She began writing ten years ago on a laptop on her bathroom vanity counter. When he realized his wife's obsession to be published wasn't going to pass, Michael built her a computer workstation in a guestroom closet. A move from the bathroom to a closet might not seem like much of an improvement, but it was just what she needed to finish and submit her first manuscript.

Mae promised her mother and her daughter that she would not write anything that would offend them. Once again, God interceded because He wanted Mae's stories to be much more than simply acceptable. He wanted them to be pleasing in His sight. Surrendering to the call on her writing, Mae's promise to her mother evolved into a much larger mission to glorify God with her work.

Mae sold her first manuscript to Steeple Hill in 2003 and has since released five Christian novels for the Love Inspired line and is contracted for a sixth release for 2009.

When asked how Mae feels about writing for Steeple Hill she summed it up by simply saying "Yeeeee Ha!" For more on Mae and her writing, please visit her at www.MaeNunn.com.