Sandy Parks

Sandy's books have won the Kiss of Death Daphne du Maurier Mainstream Suspense Award, two Maggie awards, a HOLT Award of Merit, and have been finalists in the 2013 Book Buyers Best and Write Touch Readers Award national contests. Flying and science are evident themes in Sandy's novels, but she believes writing is all about fun, strong, and memorable characters. She is a hydrogeologist by training with an M.S. in geological sciences and has taken additional graduate engineering coursework. She has taught at a university, worked on a military project for the Air Force Flight Test Center, worked as a design engineer for a civil engineering firm, and has done computer modeling and field studies as a hydrogeologic consultant. Keeping up with her two sons, she also learned how to fly and dive, and survived sparring for fifteen years as a black belt in Kenpo Karate. She has studied in England and Italy, traveled to South Africa, Egypt, Asia, and South America, and still travels to places of interest all over the world so she can make her stories richer. She fell in love with books from many genres as a kid, reading stories by Helen MacInnes, Alistair MacLean, Isaac Asimov, Mary Stewart, and Andre Norton. Later she grew into Michael Crichton, Lee Child, non-fiction historical books, and fresh new voices in science fiction and thrillers from today. Join her on: Twitter: @SParksauthor Facebook: Sandy Parks-Writer Website: www.sandyparksauthor.com Blog: "True Airspeed" at https://sandyparks.wordpress.com/