Bett Norris, born and raised in Alabama a few short miles from the place where Harper Lee did the same, followed in the footsteps of her idol and inspiration by attending the University of Alabama, somehow managing to graduate with a degree in history and a burning desire to write. Real life intruded, but many years later, her first novel, Miss McGhee, a runnerup for the first annual Bywater prize for fiction, was published, a story set in the south during the decades of the civil rights movement. A second novel, What's Best for Jane, is now available. Currently in research mode is a third book of historical fiction, a story of generations of a family on a plot of land, from 1868 to the present. Norris continues to write using the South as source material and setting. "Almost everybody's got a story about crazy relatives, mad dogs, good trucks, fishing, deer hunting, drinking, cussing, fighting, football, running around barefoot in the summers, better times in the past, and where the bootleggers live." She now lives in Florida with her partner Sandy Moore, an artist. Bett gets up every morning at an insanely early hour to write.Find out more on the author's web site www.bettnorris.wordpress.com