Terry Ward Tucker lives in Charleston and writes novels about the South, the only landscape of heart she knows. Her latest work, Charleston Kisses (Capulet Publishing), delivers a one-two punch disguised as a French kiss. Its plot confirms a Southern suspicion that “family” and “dysfunction” in the same phrase is redundant. Set in downtown Charleston, Terry has included the city itself in her cast of characters, with love as the tie that binds.

Although she holds a PhD. in reading education with a cognate in English from the University of South Carolina, Terry describes herself these days as “a recovering academic now paddling around in the sweet waters of literary art.”

Her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is in music with piano and choral emphases, which means fine arts have intermingled in Terry’s life since she wrote her first poem at age eight, and played her first Bach Invention at age eleven.

Her first novel, Elegant Sinners (published by Summerhouse Press) is also a Charleston story. Moonlight and Mill Whistles, her second novel, is set in Lancaster, South Carolina. It received the ForeWord Magazine Silver Book of the Year Award.

Terry’s style of writing reflects her interest in film. Look for short chapters, vivid scenes, fast pace, surprise-by-action, quirky characters, and, in Charleston Kisses, humor on the run. As Winston Groom (author of Forrest Gump) wrote, “Charleston Kisses is a fast-paced romp with a heart of gold. Buy it before the Yankees get there first!”

What's next for Terry? Just wait and see!

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