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About the Author

Author Info

Author C.A. Portnellus enjoys the arts: theater costuming, a writer, poet, musician, fine artist, and cook. An admiring critter lover—animals play many roles in her stories. Married to the best guy who indulges and inspires the artist/author’s crazy hours devoted to creating. With a lovely feline muse of another generation producing these new books, Portnellus continues to fine-tune and write the La Barre saga and other short stories and novellas for adults and young adults. An avid historian, she employs interesting timelines woven within the plots. Many evoke nostalgia of past decades and bring humor, love, faith, and bittersweet-tart story-telling.

Author of the Sparrow Wars in the Garden of Bliss: A La Barre Family Saga. Five are published, with two more coming soon! 

Shiver in the Dark has two sideways stories using characters and people mentioned in the series books The Road Home and Things of the Earth-Part II.

The author’s websites are currently under construction.

Thanks for reading and taking the adventure with author C.A. Portnellus.

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Vie! Remplissez-le de joie!

(Life! Fill it with joy!)