Cindy Procter-King fooled her parents into thinking she could read at the age of four (thank you, Dr. Seuss), and she's been into tomfoolery ever since. A self-professed introvert—not that anyone believes her—Cindy quickly learned that making people laugh helped her overcome her natural shyness, and by twelve she'd earned a reputation for creativity and mischief. Unfortunately, she also managed to get her entire grade seven class kicked out of school for an afternoon.

Thankfully, she's calmed down some.

Cindy credits Laura Ingalls Wilder, Red Skelton, and Carol Burnett for inspiring her love of books and comedy. Cindy took to writing in childhood, penning numerous short stories and poems throughout her teens and twenties before turning her hand to novels. Armed with a B.A. in English Lit, she's worked in public relations, recruitment advertising, and did a stint at a minimum security prison (as an office assistant-honest!) before giving it all up to raise kids, write romance novels, and take up a second career as a golf widow.

Cindy's mission in life is to see her surname spelled properly—with only one O. So take heed. That's P-r-o-c-t-E-r. She lives in beautiful British Columbia with her husband, their two sons, and Allie McBeagle.