About the Author
Meredith Blevins is a fifth-generation Californian who grew up in Los Angeles. Her fantasy was to run away with the Gypsies and become a reporter for THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER. Instead, she attended several colleges in California while holding down a variety of jobs and raising her kids.
She studied and worked and dreamed. She took a position with Santa Rosa Junior College's Community Services Department as a music therapist and wrote articles about her work in hospitals and the practice of using creative arts in the healing process. During this time Meredith also founded an intergenerational program within the department.
She continued playing music in hospitals to keep her soul together, but was offered a chance to do marketing for the food industry and to write a financial column for trade magazines. Meredith grabbed it. An active member of The American Association of Business Journalists, she lectured for University of California extension programs, non-profit farm organizations, and food packing associations on the fine art of business and the bottom line.
After several years, Meredith found herself in need of change, a major one--it was time to pursue her dream of a life in the arts. In 1998 Meredith ran away from home to travel the West and live out her Gypsy fantasies. Along the way she met a variety of unique people, including author Win Blevins, who Meredith quickly fell in love with and married. She said,
"One morning I woke and found this note from Win…
marry me
tarry with me through the sunrises
breathe in morning after magical morning
sit with me in the blue shadows
watch the mist rise
off the creek
smell the freshening air
and touch my fingertips.
marry me
i offer
and I ask for
something old
(love is the origin of the planet)
something new
(me you)
something borrowed
(time)
something blue
(the color of flowing waters
and of the sky
and of your eyes)
marry me
dance with me
Meredith, I ask you,
marry me
… and I had to say yes."
With support from Win and her children she made the jump from writing non-fiction to fiction and began work on her first novel. The result is The Hummingbird Wizard, which has already garnered praise from Tony Hillerman, Jonathan Kellerman and Clive Cussler. It will be published by Forge Books in September 2003.
Meredith Blevins lives in Utah, near the Four Corners where she continues to live out her dream life--recording music, studying the tarot, loving her family, and of course writing. She is currently hard at play on her next novel, The Vanished Priestess, second in The Mystic Café series, and a sequel to The Hummingbird Wizard.
Meredith loves the pull of mystery and the sound of laughter.
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