Born in 1948 in Chicago, Illinois, Annette's family moved to Los Angeles when she was one year old. She had what she considered to be a very typical life in a household with a father who worked at the family dry cleaning business, an at-home mom (from whom Annette gets her silly side and somewhat warped imagination). Annette considered her life to be ordinary until she met the love of her life, Michael Brian Schiffer, at the ripe old age of 17. They got married during their senior year at UCLA, graduated, and continued on what has been a life-long adventure together. After Michael finished graduate school at the University of Arizona, they lived for two years in Fayetteville, Arkansas and spent almost 40 years in Tucson, Arizona where Mike was a professor at the U of A. They retired to Alexandria, Virginia. While trying to figure out what she wanted to be when she grew up, Annette found happiness and fulfillment in her personal life as a wife, mother of two sons, and now grandma, and in her professional "do gooder" life as a La Leche League Leader, wildlife rehabilitator, and college and career advisor in Tucson, Arizona, and Washington, D.C. Because long-distance phone calls were so expensive, all during that time she was the family correspondent. She reached out to relatives all over the U.S.and Canada in long letters describing everything from child-rearing adventures (trying to make being surrounded by sick kids and poop-filled diapers sound fun was a challenge) to family travels (yes, the car really did croak in Mexico leaving us with no way to get home). Correspondence has continued mainly through emails and Facebook posts, though every now and then, she puts pen to paper and writes in the old-fashioned way. Now retired, Annette collaborates with husband Michael and is channeling her vivid imagination and insights into human behavior through mystery novels. When not working on books, she enjoys reading, cooking, family, and travel. The Schiffers' books appear in the series, The Oak Grove Chronicles. Book 1, A Buzz About Campus, and Book 2, Holy Smoke! have been published and are available in paperback and ebook at amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com. Book 3, A Tough Nut to Crack, will be out in the fall of 2019, and book 4, Vintage Crimes, will be out in late 2019 or early 2020. Tightly plotted, the mysteries are a warmhearted blend of serious and silly, delightful cozies. More books are in the works. Will Annette ever figure out what she wants to be when she grows up? Time will tell! In the meantime, read more about Annette and Michael on Facebook (Boulangerie Press), their web page, www.boulangeriepress.com, Instagram, boulangeriepress and Twitter, @MichaelBrianSc1. We hope you enjoy our cozy mysteries!