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Rachel has been writing ever since she was nine years old and scrawled, “I want to be a author like Laura Ingalls Wilder,” but the journey has been a circuitous one. She graduated from Western Washington University with a B.A. in English Literature and little else and began her mediocre career in retail and office work. She hoped to gain experience by day and write by night and come out with her Great American Fantasy novel within a couple of years. Rarely do things turn out as planned, however. While the novel did not happen, she learned a lot.

Hopscotching between jobs in veterinary hospitals, bookstores, department stores, coffee shops, engineering firms, movie theaters, healthcare facilities, chemical plants, nonprofit organizations and yes (gasp), even term paper mills, she finally landed (for now) as a part-time Girl Friday at a neighborhood newspaper whilst freelancing, starting her own company, Putt Putt Productions (www.puttputtproductions.com).

You can find her articles, stories and poetry in Aoife’s Kiss, Bewildering Stories Beyond Centauri, Chocolate Zoom, Electric Velocipede, The Illuminata, Larchmont Chronicle, Lucrezia, Mindflights.com, SheVibe.com and WOW! Women on Writing.

Currently, she works under the watchful eye of Pye (Squwacket), orange tabby extraordinaire, in a hippy den in Los Angeles. You can visit her at various places on the interwebs, but her home blog is www.puttputtproductions.com/blogetary.

The Holly and the Ivan

The first in Rachel Olivier’s holiday romances, The Holly and the Ivan tells the story of Holly, lead singer of an all girl rock band. The only thing Holly likes as much as being in a band is being in a relationship. She just can’t turn a cute guy down, and she has the disastrous dating history to prove it. On the eve of her band’s biggest performance, a Christmas festival raising funds for the homeless, Holly meets two intriguing men, but even she can’t date both at the same time. So now the question is: which one? It takes some special holiday magic, a dash of music, and a little help from her friends to figure it out, but Holly’s heart wins out in the end.

Read an excerpt.