C.K. Bailey’s writing career began at age seven when she produced a short story about escaping from a locked basement. The aptly named “How to Escape from a Locked Basement” was inspired by true events.

Her imagination took a sharp turn toward fiction at age twelve when she played in cemeteries and made “friends” with dead people. For a few chapters, she preferred them to the living (characters were kinder, and C.K. was always right and never in trouble).

She nurtured dreams of being a writer and providing children with a better childhood than the one she experienced. Now she divides her time between writing and the full-time daycare she has been running with her husband for over 25 years.

When not otherwise engaged, C.K. can be found spoiling her Black-Mouth Cur, visiting her grandchildren, or strolling through cemeteries trying to sate a boundless curiosity about the forgotten stories buried among the weathered stones and grass.