Ginney Etherton

I've written 3 books in the Lainey Tidwell series about a young woman caddie at a small-town golf resort. The stories are fiction, based on people and scenes that I got a glimpse of in my time spent in real towns. Sometimes the realities are not far from my fictional characterizations, but I'm not telling which ones.

I have lived in Langlois, Oregon, for almost forty years but I'm still not considered a local because I wasn't born here. Worse yet, I came from California (but Northern California). My husband and I have a small farm on the west side of Highway 101, where no neighbors are visible but the ocean is. We're miles from any town with a city hall, or a school, or a bar.

Since leaving employment as a construction materials inspector with ODOT, I've found interests in volunteering with the SMART reading program and the Langlois Library, and with activities such as gardening, bird-watching, dogs, beach-walking, golf, and writing.

My first book was a narrative nonfiction, published using pseudonym Gail Morellen.

I'm not big on writing about myself, or writing about writing.

All comments welcome.