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Rita Gerlach is the editor of Stepping Stones. She began writing around
1989 after attending a family reunion where her cousin, a famous romance
novelist, handed her a copy of one of her books. She has written articles
for online magazines such as Writers Gazette, Will Write 4 Food, as well as the
print magazine The Christian Communicator. She has completed four historical
novels set in Maryland, Virginia, and England. Currently she is writing two
more novels.Born in Washington,
D.C., Rita grew up in a large family in the Maryland suburbs, where there never
seemed to be a dull moment. As far as any famous people in her family, Nora
Roberts is her cousin, and it is Nora that gave her that signed copy at a
family reunion. The elders in her family claim that storytelling is in their
blood, handed down from centuries of Irish, English, and Scottish storytellers. Rita believes
there may be some truth to that theory.
She is married to
her high school sweetheart, and lives in historical Frederick, Maryland with
their two sons.
