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About the author

Meet JoLynn

JoLynn Morgan believes the best stories start with a few good friends, a questionable idea, and somebody saying, “What’s the worst that could happen?”

She lives in a two-story house on the bluffs, where the front porch hangs over a creek and the woods run up the back. She shares it with her husband, the love of her life and her biggest cheerleader, who has learned not to ask too many questions when she starts a sentence with “So, the girls and I were thinking…” Together they raised six kids. Now she is “Mimi” to four little ones, who think she is the “funnest” person alive. She agrees with them.

When she isn’t writing, JoLynn is usually covered in drywall dust, rehabbing and managing the family’s rental homes. Before that, she ran an estate liquidation business, digging through other people’s attics and finding treasure in the strangest places. It turned out to be excellent training for a novelist.

Her stories come from the women she calls her Village, the neighbors down the creek who became her best friends. They are the kind of friends who will join you on a treasure hunt several states away, or pile into a car for a girls’ trip that goes sideways. Finders Keepers and Pensacola are full of that kind of friendship: loyal, loud, laugh-until-you-cry, and a little bit unhinged.

JoLynn loves Jesus more than anything. “I’m not a professional Christian though,” she says. “Jesus is still working on this mouth.” Every year since she turned forty, she has thrown herself a birthday party. She rents a party bus for her Village and wears an outfit that would make Dolly Parton proud. She writes the same way she celebrates: big-hearted, unapologetic, and determined to make sure everybody has a good time.