​​​​​​​Elanora and the Salt Marsh Mystery is Kathleen Jae’s first novel. She has been writing in one form or another for almost twenty-five years. In past lives the author has been a proofreader, editor, newspaper reporter and columnist, newsletter writer for a wildlife organization and writer of stage plays and screenplays. Two of Kathleen’s short stories made it to the finals of the 2017 Florida Writer Association Royal Palm Literary Competition. Elanora and the Salt Marsh Mystery was a finalist in the 2021 Page Turner Awards.