Author Farral Bradtke was born and raised in the United States' Midwest,
and has traveled extensively throughout the United States and Canada. Traveling is one of her many joys in life.
She has worked most of her life as a speech pathologist, treating children
and adults from age 8 months to 108 years, in almost every imaginable setting. At one point she also spent over sixteen
years as a university professor, teaching students the art and science of speech therapy.
Farral was lucky enough to find two of her life's passions very early
in life: a fascination with both people and words. And they go together, don't they? What good would the
spoken or written word be without people? We use them to help, give information, support, convince, manipulate, mislead,
humiliate, destroy, terrify. . .and much more. Words can make the heart soar, or fall to shatter
like priceless crystal.
She has
spent much time both reading and writing and her life's work has taught her that there is much more to a human being than
what is seen on the surface. It does't matter what she finds--it's all intensely interesting to her.
Her fascination with all things paranormal began at the age
of eight, when she realized that she knew through a dream the exact moment of her beloved grandmother's death. Add to
that various and sundry moments when the hairs on the back of her head stood up straight, and you've developed a fan of the
paranormal. And when you add the concept of things preternatural to the dark side of human nature, her imagination runs
riot. And she's got to share.
Ms.
Bradtke's published works include From the Ashes of Love (under the pen name Claire Matthews) and Heartless Heartland.
At this web site, the reader may find out more about either book, examine her latest blog from her ongoing work, So You
Want to Be an Old Southern Woman, find representative reviews, or link to her author friends.
Farral Bradtke can be
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