Rebecca Velez Books

Rebecca Velez was born in Texas but grew up in New England. She spent so much time reading as a child her mother would tell her to put her book away and go outside. Her teachers encouraged her writing and patiently corrected (or maybe skimmed) reports, essays, and poetry. In college, she majored in public relations journalism in order to take classes in both fiction and non-fiction. She discovered she preferred to take her time crafting fiction rather than working under deadline pressure writing newspaper articles.

 

Unable to find a job in her field, she became a first grade teacher. When she left the work force in order to care for her newborn son, she began writing the book she'd been researching for several years. After five years of writing and revising, she presented Such a Time as This to her grandmother as an eightieth birthday gift. It took another three years to find a publisher. God blessed her family with a daughter during that time. Rearing children and moving halfway across the country twice have taken most of her time, but now that she's on the cusp of becoming an empty nester, she plans to spend more time writing.