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A Missouri native, Ruth grew up in
Kansas City before TV and learned early on that "let's
pretend" was a wonderful game. She learned the work ethic
early, too, holding a variety of jobs during high school: carrying
cafeteria trays at 14, clerking in a dime store, drug store fountain
waitress and office work. After graduation, Ruth married the
love of her life, Charles, had two children, Karen and Charlie, and
moved around the country with her IBM husband.
While living in New York, Ruth
worked as a multi-task person for a weekly newspaper and had her
first byline as a feature writer. An avid Bible student, Ruth
worked for 30 years with teens within her church and hosted both a
weekly woman's prayer group and young adult study group while living
near Washington, D. C., where she attended her first RWA National
Conference. She joined the local RWA chapter and a heavy-duty
critique group where she honed her skills.
Ruth wrote four western historicals
for Harper as Lee Scofield. Her first, SWEET AMITY'S FIRE, was
a finalist for RWA's First Book RITA award.
Her first contemporary
inspirational romance, written as Ruth Scofield, IN GOD'S OWN TIME,
was published by Silhouette's Steeple Hill in June of 1998. Her
second, THE PERFECT GROOM, was released in June 1999.Ruth is a
member of RWA, HeRA, Faith, Hope, and Love, the RWA Christian
outreach chapter, Novelists, Inc., Heartland Writer's Guild and The
Author's Guild. LOVE CAME UNEXPECTEDLY was released in January
2005.
She was a contributing author to
Rebecca Vinyard's book, THE ROMANCE WRITER'S HANDBOOK
(2004).
NEW BEGINNINGS is a series she is
currently working on and each story is a stand-alone story with a
connection to NEW BEGINNINGS. Publication date is unknown at this
time.
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