ABOUT T.J. HENDRIX
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tjmhendrix@gmail.com
Teresa Joan Hendrix started writing fiction for middle schoolers and young adults after a long career in non-fiction writing. She spent 11 years as a daily newspaper reporter on California's Central Coast, and another 14 years in university public relations, web and social media marketing.
When she's not writing middle grade fiction, she's working as a volunteer on her town's Dia de los Muertos celebration, Zumba dancing, or creating a gruesome browser history researching European, American and indigenous folk beliefs about magic, monsters, curses, ghosts, supernatural beings, forest ecology, and true history tidbits they still don't teach in schools.
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She has two grown and married daughters, two granddaughters and three granddogs. She lives in Sonoma County wine country with her husband and Maggie the Beagle-Jack. She grew up spending summers deep in the Mendocino redwoods, which inspired her first book, "The Pack, The Dare and the Draugar." She's already working on a sequel.
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She relies on actual middle school readers to test her book chapters and tell her if they're boring, pretty good or in between. If you'd like to be a test reader and swear that you are an actual middle-schooler, have middle-schoolers or vividly remember being a middle-schooler, join her emailing list.
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