Casey Quinn
Casey Quinn and Petrina Collins are neighbors by chance and great friends by choice. LIVING THE DREAM ON A BOX WINE BUDGET is Casey Quinn and Petrina Collins' first book. It is a collection of short humorous essays about family life (their families, in fact). Their second book, and first novel, NUMB, is a departure from that genre, as it tells the story of one woman's unconventional and quite illegal method of coping with stress.
After graduating from Loyola University of Chicago with her Bachelor of Science degree in Dental Hygiene and Minor in Psychology,Casey Quinn spent the next twenty-five years working in a clinical private practice setting, while raising her four children. She currently lives in St. Charles, IL with her husband, and anywhere from one to three children, as their single lives dictate. It is Casey's sincere desire to one day be an empty-nester...
Petrina Collins boasts a colorful college resume. She began her undergraduate studies at Illinois State University (which she had confused with the University of Illinois, thus leading to bewilderment when she was deposited onto the Normal, IL campus). Soon after the start of school, she concluded that Illinois did not offer the climate she felt was conducive to her academic pursuits, so she fled to the sunny skies of Florida to continue her studies at the University of Southern Florida. Petrina is happy to say that she did, eventually, graduate with her degree in Education, leading to the disturbing realization, on her first day as a teacher, that she had made a huge mistake. She then stumbled upon her career of twenty-five years in the corporate world of pharmaceutical sales and currently holds the position of District Sales Manager at a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company. She currently lives in St. Charles, IL with her husband and two children she hopes will one day move out. That last sentence is open to interpretation...
Please visit their blogsite, Life On A Box Wine Budget at www.boxwinebudget.com and enter their world of snarky observations about life and the things that really bug them.
You can also follow Casey on Twitter @boxwinebudget and they would LOVE it if you "Like" their Facebook Pages: Casey Quinn & Petrina Collins and Life On A Box Wine Budget.
