About the Author

Twenty years into my teaching career and starting to burn out, I began writing about my experiences inside and outside the classroom. What bothered me most was not the interaction with the kids, it turns out I was pretty good at that. No, it was the perception of teachers from those who should know better, the administration and the board of education. To some, teachers were selfish, private contractors, to others we were serfs. I knew otherwise and began writing The Faculty Lounge Stories.

I found that I liked to write, and that it was therapeutic. I wrote more stories, got a couple published, then went at it full time when I retired. I decided my work needed more plot and less spleen and cranked out five novels. I couldn’t find an agent or a publisher and went back to teaching when I was offered a job at a different school. When I retired the second time, I re-worked one of the earlier novels into Personal Pronouns (2017), and later its sequel, Indirect Objects (2020).

COVID changed my focus to the Small-Town Romance genre, and I wrote the first two “Benton Center Romances,” Unexpected Love (2022) and Unveiled Love (2024). Now I’m deciding whether to write another Mystery or a Romance or more of The Faculty Lounge Stories. Whichever way I go, I’ll be enjoying retirement and doting on my grandchildren.

I hope you enjoy my books as much as I’ve enjoyed writing them!

- David Allen Edmonds