<p>For <em>USA Today </em>Bestselling author Jean C. Gordon, writing is a natural extension of her love of reading. From that day in first grade when she realized t-h-e was the word "the," she's been reading everything she can put her hands on. A former financial planner, Jean is as at home writing retirement- and investment-planning advice as she is writing romance novels, but finds novels a lot more fun.<br><br>She and her college-sweetheart husband tried the city life in Los Angeles, but quickly returned home to their native Upstate New York. They share a 170-year-old farmhouse just south of Albany, NY, with their daughter and son-in-law, two grandchildren, and a menagerie of pets. Their son lives nearby. While Jean creates stories, her family grows organic fruits and vegetables and tends the livestock de jour.<br><br>You can keep in touch with her at www.Facebook.com/JeanCGordon.Author, @JeanCGordon, or www.JeanCGordon.com. Sign-up for her Readers Group and Newsletter https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/t0d0w0.</p>
