About Me

My name, as you know if you are here, is Elaine Burkett. I grew up in North Carolina in the United States, but I moved to Utah a few years after getting married. Many, many writers say that they have always felt the call to write or create. Often they write their first story as a child or at the very least before graduating high school.

That’s not me.

For most of my life, I considered myself particularly uncreative. I knew I could take an existing idea and improve it, but I considered that closer to engineering than to creativity. I was very much a math and science sort of girl, even looking at the world in black and white, though I did not realize I was doing so.

Despite my distinct preferences for the science side of life, I have always been an avid reader and a studier of human behavior. Pride and Prejudice was one of my favorite books from the moment I first read it in my early teen years. In fact, my youngest child’s middle name is Elizabeth. Another longstanding favorite was Lord of the Rings and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series.

Once I get my blog and newsletter going, I will gradually include more details of my life journey and how and why I became a writer, but the tale is too long for this simple introduction. I will only say that my world view and my understanding of myself shifted when I became chronically ill in 2012.

My writing is deliberately low angst and often low in drama. It is for those who love to read but who don’t want the stress or emotional intensity of drama and angst, especially when it is pointless. Instead, I focus on character and relationship development. My goal is to provide low-stress entertainment to help my readers relax from the difficulties of life.