Lorena Estep writes from the mountains of Pennsylvania. She has had stories published in Mature Living magazine, Writers Journal, On the Line children’s magazine, True Story magazine, and had meditations published in Penned From the Heart, Cross & Quill, and Purpose weekly paper for adult Sunday school class.

Details: Lorena entered a fiction story entitled Old Dogs and Children and Watermelon Wine to a Writers’ Journal contest and won third place for it. It was published in their January 2004 magazine. In July 2004 a story entitled Lost At Lost Creek was published in the children’s On The Line magazine; two devotions were published in the March, April, May 2005 issue of The Secret Place entitled Staying Sharp and In The Middle of the Night; a story was published in a May 22, 2005 Purpose paper entitled A Call In The Night; a story in Mature Living May 2005 entitled I’m Not Aging Gracefully; one in Cross & Quill May/June 2005 issue entitled “A Confused Author”; Mature Living December 2005 entitled A Tea Party Goes Awry; Mature Living July 2006 entitled Help! I’m Shrinking!; a story in True Story (Miracle of Faith) May 2006 entitled I Saw My Guardian Angel; Mature Living 2007 entitled My Tub Runneth Over; Mature Living December 2008 entitled Getting To Know Gertie, and one to come out in their May 2009 issue entitled Locked In A Shed. She's had devotions published in the last six years of Penned From the Heart, approximately 6-8 per year.

She also edits a quarterly 10-page paper for the church she attends. Lorena most enjoys writing novels. The idea for Out of the Mist was conceived while staying in a beach condo for a month to work on another novel, The Perfect Match. While there, she walked on the beach in a thick mist that turned out to be quite eerie, and saw a man turn and walk towards her. It frightened her back to her condo, giving her the idea for an alll-new novel.