Deanna Roy is the author of Baby Dust, an adult novel about a pregnancy loss support group, released by Casey Shay Press October 2011. She is currently working on the prequel to that story, Stella & Dane: A Honky Tonk Romance. Subscribers can read excerpts of the new novel as it is written. Join!
Her newest book, Single Edged Blades, is a collection of story stories, many republished from literary magazines, on love and betrayal.
In 2012, her iPad/iPhone story book app for kids, Dust Bunnies: Secret Agents, will be released by Polycot Labs. This app features an original story about the dust bunnies who live under the bed, who need YOUR child to save their world. You can meet the bunnies (let your child ask questions and they will answer!) and see when the app will be released at their Facebook Page.
Deanna has published numerous humor essays on life as a writer, which she has collected into a series of Kindle shorts called Royalty Check Reality Check.
She will be speaking on writing for children in the digital age at the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Digital Symposium in October 2011.
Her short stories have appeared in several literary magazines, including 34th Parallel, Farfelu, and The First Line. Her writing credits are lengthy due to her background in journalism and freelance, but one of her favorite articles is a humorous piece about skydiving, published by The Writer in March 2009.
She’s been a waitress, a free-sample girl, backstage security for a concert venue (please don’t ask about the time she threw R.E.M. off the elevator and made them late to their own concert) , a high school teacher, an editor for a publishing company, and still works as a professional photographer.
After suffering her first miscarriage, Deanna began the web site www.pregnancyloss.info. The pages get over one million unique visitors a year, although it is her fondest wish that no one would ever need to come at all. You can also find her Facebook memorial page for babies lost to miscarriage or stillbirth.
Deanna opened a home photography studio in 1999 to achieve a work schedule that allows her to write. She is a member of the Writers’ League of Texas and currently serves as Chairperson of Novel-in-Progress, a longstanding critique group that has generated many published writers.
Feel free to find her on Facebook or on Google+ or Goodreads.
