Kelly McClymer has been telling stories since she first learned to talk. When she learned to write, she discovered that was a much better way to tell her stories. Her story focus ranges from the contemporary close-up look at a young mother suffering from sleep deprivation (“Napping on Jungle Time”), back to Victorian era romance (Once Upon a Wedding series), and into the future where one person’s identity can be transferred to another’s body (“Solomon’s Paradox). She has even written stories that transcend reality and dip into the realms of magic (Blood Angel, the Salem Witch trilogy).

A reformed writing instructor, Kelly McClymer has been known to slip into “teacher” mode from time to time, when talking about storytelling. She firmly believes that most of us have an inner-writer who’d like to come out to play — if she wasn’t locked up in the basement, chained by the fearsome rules of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary that our fourth-grade teachers instilled in us.

Fairytales feed Kelly McClymer’s imagination, and she devours them as often as she can find them, from the obscure to the ancient. The fairytales she concocts don’t begin with “Once Upon a Time…”, but with “I wonder what would happen if…”