Award-winning author Dee Lloyd credits her upbringing in Timmins, a Northern Ontario gold mining town, for her love of dramatic scenery and her conviction that nothing is impossible to a person who is willing to work for it. When she was thirteen years old, she told a reporter for the Timmins Daily Press that she was going to be a writer. Many careers - ranging from sales clerk in a record store to teacher of literature and creative writing - and years later, she is doing just that.  

She is fascinated by electronic publishing and the fresh new settings and story lines which this new medium encourages.  Married to Terry Sheils, EPPIE award winning author of horror, humorous mystery, and historical novels for over forty years, Dee states, “Writing is as essential as breathing in our house.”  

Dee is a popular speaker at Romance and Mystery conferences. She enjoys coordinating her Library In Your Hand workshops in which authors introduce readers to the pleasures of reading novels on handheld readers, PDAs and Pocket PCs.  

Dee’s TIES that Blind won an EPPIE - the EPIC  (Electronic Publishers Internet Connection) award for contemporary romance. This March, OUT OF HER DREAMS won the EPIC Award for Paranormal Romance.

Having spent six exciting years as senior editor of the no longer extant LTDBooks publishing company, Dee found she missed the editing. Recently, she has begun a novel editing service. See the particulars here. 

When asked where she lives, Dee says, “Having lived near Toronto and enjoyed the kind of shopping, theater, art, museums and the great zoo that this city offers for many years, I’ve always suspected that I really live on an island in the beautiful lake country of Central Ontario. That’s where I get to spend time with my daughters and their families. I’m sure the grandchildren think of me being there. It’s my natural habitat and my favorite place to write.”