About the Author:
While growing up in the South and completing seventh grade Toni Noel, writing under another name, laboriously typed each copy of the newspaper she published and circulated at church.
When she was fourteen Toni began an autobiography, but after only three chapters realized she had not lived long enough to give her life story an arc. She concluded her effort in the fourth chapter by giving her heroine an incurable disease.
She later edited her high school paper and one of her editorials earned her membership in Quill and Scroll. She also wrote a weekly fishing column, perhaps her first published work of fiction, for at that time she had never held a fishing pole.
For two of those high school years a weekly column about the happenings of her high school friends earned Toni a byline in a Scripps-Howard daily newspaper and a neighborhood weekly, the first income earned from her writing, money her father faithfully set aside for her to attend college.
Toni thrived on spending time in the library, loved to do research and write term papers. She would finish her theme well ahead of the due date so she could type the papers of classmates, a lucrative way to add to her college fund.
She met her husband of sixty-seven-years her first week on campus and at the end of her freshman year gave up her dream of teaching to marry the first-year teacher who had captured her heart. He retired in 2010, ending a sixty-year teaching career.
The couple later moved to San Diego, where Toni became a Girl Scouts leader and troop organizer while actively working to secure a library for her neighborhood and earning an Honorary Membership in the PTA.
When her last child left for college, Toni resumed her college education, earning a business degree with special emphasis in System Analysis from SDSU. Hired by a government contractor specializing in research and development of underwater vehicles, she supervised the accounting department software and payroll until the company closed and she retired to write romance.
Toni continues to hone her writing skills by attending conferences, interfacing with other writers and judging and editing manuscripts of other writers. She loves to take on-line classes and reads every book she gets her hands on, regardless of genre, now reading them on her NOOK or KINDLE FIRE. Currently Toni devotes her time to writing stories like the novels she loves best, books about finding safe havens for the heart.
With the re-release of Law Breakers and Love Makers, Temp to Permanent, Decisive Moments, Restored Dreams, Fairy Dusted, Rising Above, To Feel Again, Fragile Bonds, and Homeward Bound and Lying Eyes in both print and e-Book formats, you have numerous opportunities to purchase her novels and lose yourself in a safe haven for the heart novel, too.
When she was fourteen Toni began an autobiography, but after only three chapters realized she had not lived long enough to give her life story an arc. She concluded her effort in the fourth chapter by giving her heroine an incurable disease.
She later edited her high school paper and one of her editorials earned her membership in Quill and Scroll. She also wrote a weekly fishing column, perhaps her first published work of fiction, for at that time she had never held a fishing pole.
For two of those high school years a weekly column about the happenings of her high school friends earned Toni a byline in a Scripps-Howard daily newspaper and a neighborhood weekly, the first income earned from her writing, money her father faithfully set aside for her to attend college.
Toni thrived on spending time in the library, loved to do research and write term papers. She would finish her theme well ahead of the due date so she could type the papers of classmates, a lucrative way to add to her college fund.
She met her husband of sixty-seven-years her first week on campus and at the end of her freshman year gave up her dream of teaching to marry the first-year teacher who had captured her heart. He retired in 2010, ending a sixty-year teaching career.
The couple later moved to San Diego, where Toni became a Girl Scouts leader and troop organizer while actively working to secure a library for her neighborhood and earning an Honorary Membership in the PTA.
When her last child left for college, Toni resumed her college education, earning a business degree with special emphasis in System Analysis from SDSU. Hired by a government contractor specializing in research and development of underwater vehicles, she supervised the accounting department software and payroll until the company closed and she retired to write romance.
Toni continues to hone her writing skills by attending conferences, interfacing with other writers and judging and editing manuscripts of other writers. She loves to take on-line classes and reads every book she gets her hands on, regardless of genre, now reading them on her NOOK or KINDLE FIRE. Currently Toni devotes her time to writing stories like the novels she loves best, books about finding safe havens for the heart.
With the re-release of Law Breakers and Love Makers, Temp to Permanent, Decisive Moments, Restored Dreams, Fairy Dusted, Rising Above, To Feel Again, Fragile Bonds, and Homeward Bound and Lying Eyes in both print and e-Book formats, you have numerous opportunities to purchase her novels and lose yourself in a safe haven for the heart novel, too.
