Eileen Goudge

Click "Follow" to get updates and news about my book releases and giveaways. I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up from the time I first learned to read and write. I wrote my first short story at age eight. My first writing gig was as a ghost writer for the wildly popular YA series "Sweet Valley High." I have since gone on to publish 21 fiction titles, and one cookbook, under my own name. My first novel, "Garden of Lies" was a New York Times bestseller, published in 25 countries. "Where do you get your story ideas?" is the question I'm most often asked by readers. Curious by nature, I also come from a large family with more a few skeletons rattling around in the closet, which means I never run out of story ideas, many of them inspired by true-life events. I’m also a wife and mom of two adult children. No pets currently, but I have fun hanging out with my fictional pets, most recently Ranger the rescue dog extraordinaire in "All They Need to Know." My hobby is baking, and I get some of my best story ideas while kneading bread dough or rolling out pastry crusts. You never know what might come out of my "oven."