Tracee Lydia Garner

Tracee Lydia Garner is a a speaker, private writing coach and author of 20+ fiction and nonfiction titles. A Virginia native, she holds a degree in Communications from Old Dominion University. She tremendously enjoys the written and spoken word and prior to entertaining full length novels, was a contributor to her alma mater's campus literary magazine for her poetry.

Tracee submitted her first novella in a prestigious contest, winning the grand prize, publishing deal and book award, which launched her writing career and gave her inroads to her long time love affair with writing and publishing. A 22 year veteran of writing and publishing, Tracee has been published both traditionally, and as an indie author. She has also been an adjunct professor teaching at the college level. She currently works with individual, aspiring writers to coach them through the process of finishing their books and pursuing publication, as well as helping them to market their heartfelt stories to a bigger audience and grow their following. In addition to writing, Tracee enjoys marketing, spending way too much time in Canva (a graphic design program,) making book trailers for her books, planning events, including conferences, book launches for herself and others, and she of course loves to read. Tracee also enjoys creating planners, and other digital downloads at her new Etsy Shop, Sunday Starts extending her writing and visual creative endeavor.

Tracee is a member of the Romance Writers Association, the DC chapter of RWA, and the Nonfiction Book Writers Association. Visit her at www.traceegarner.com and her shop, www.sundaystarts.etsy.com.