Deborah Boyer's affair with the written word began at 14, when a teacher suggested her homework essay be submitted to the school paper. Entitled 'Make-Up Madness', it targeted such travesties as blue eyeshadow and earned her a regular humor column.

Her enslavement to computers, however, came a decade later. One fateful spring morning in 1986, she arrived at work to discover her typewriter missing and several large boxes in its place. Intrigued, challenged, seduced and finally commanded by DOS onto the World Wide Web, her professional and personal devotion to the computer age – it's information, resources, freedoms and enlightenment – grew along with the Internet.

Upon learning how, Deborah also read anything and everything she could find. Encompassing Newberry Award winners to Daphne du Maurier to a musty box of True Confessions magazines, Deborah isn't surprised that creating provocative women's fiction has become her drug of choice.

Deborah lives with her husband – and never-ending source of inspiration – in a tidy house erected for her great-great-grandfather, the second in a town the Reading Railroad built, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.