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1000 Word Sprint Winner Profiles: 1st Place: Amanda Ruehle

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img_2351-11What goes on inside the writerly mind?

Let’s sit down with our 1000 Word Sprint Contest winners and see what’s up.

(Click HERE to read the stories.)

TODAY: 1st place winner Amanda Ruehle

Amanda Ruehle was born in Albuquerque, NM, and now resides in the great, green area of the country known as Western Washington. She lived for three years in Sasebo, Japan and has great ambitions to live in Spain or Italy someday.

Author Amanda Ruehle photographed by Glen Davis/Legendary Portra author Amanda Ruehle

Amanda shares her house with her long-suffering husband (love you, dear!), three boisterous boys, two dogs, a gecko, a bearded dragon, and a turtle. When she isn’t writing, she is busy driving a school bus, chasing after her boys, or running her small clay sculpture business. Sleep often seems to be an optional activity.

Amanda first started writing creatively in high school, but she didn’t really get going until college, when she would…

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About The Owl Lady

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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