Mae Nunn

"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 began writing ten years ago on a laptop on her bathroom vanity counter. When her husband realized her determination to be published wasn't going to pass, he 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 in 2002 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.

She rewrote that first manuscript, strengthening and focusing on the faith element of the story and the result was her first sale to Steeple Hill, Hearts in Bloom.  Mae has since sold five more Love Inspired novels.  In September of 2008 she was blessed to be able to retire after thirty years in the air express industry and is now a full time writer! 

When asked how Mae feels about being a published author in the Christian fiction market she summed it up by simply saying “Yeeeee Ha!” For more on Mae and her writing, please visit her at www.MaeNunn.com.

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