Phyllis f. McManus

Phyllis f. McManus was born in Monroe, North Carolina. She started writing as a form of therapy when she lost her parents in a car accident in 2002. She loves to write from her heart, which shows in her characters. She won 1st place nationwide in the Union County Writer's Club poetry competition in 2008 with the poem "The Edge of Darkness." This poem focuses on Alzheimer's, which her Mother had to live with. She also won an award with her short story "Mama's Memory Box" in 2011. She won first place in fiction short stories for "The Special Gift" in 2015, sponsored by the Union County Writers Club. She is currently doing public speaking about her journey of writing. Her book, "Do I Know Me?," has been added to the Sneak Previews in the Southern Writers Magazine for January and February 2016 issues. Also, "Southern Secrets," her sequel to "The Southern Belle Breakfast Club," has been placed in the Must Read section of Southern Writers Magazine. The readers who follow her in her journey call themselves her "Bookies." They make sure they give her encouragement and motivation when she gets writer's block. She has written a total of eleven books and is in the process of writing her twelfth, which is her fifth in "The Southern Belle Breakfast Club" series.