Eloise Barton, winner of the Katie Maxwell Award for Writing Achievement, wrote her first book over 20 years ago--a 125,000 word novel based on the blending of her four and her husband's five children into one big happy--well, interesting family.  The unpublishable manuscript now sits on top of one of her bookcase.

Eloise soon realized she needed to learn more about the business of writing.  She has since sold over one hundred stories and articles, including many confession stories.  ("With what my children tell me, can I ever write confessions!")

Eloise is now the proud grandmother of (at last count) thirty-four grandchildren and great-grandchildren--who push her into trying all sorts of new things: ("You want me to do what? Cross that creek by sliding along that fallen tree with the broken branches sticking out? If I get a puncture in my anatomy, or fall in the creek and get wet, you'd better run, kid, because I'm coming after you!")

After the death of her husband, she shared her mobile home in Sacramento, California, with a fat lazy cat, worked in the accounting office of the California State Fair, and continued writing.  She has now retired, remarried and moved to the mountains of Northern California, where she is working on her next novel.

As Eloise Barton or (under her new name, Eloise Miller), she is (or has been) a member of: