p. m. terrell

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p.m. terrell wanted to be a novelist in the fourth grade, when she was presented an award for writing. She finished her first full-length novel at the age of fifteen, a suspense thriller entitled "The Merging."

She found herself on the ground floor of a mushrooming industry, when while working for a subsidiary of IBM the first Apple computers rolled off the production lines. She has three computer how-to books to her credit;" Creating the Perfect Database;" "The Dynamics of WordPerfect;" "The Dynamics of Reflex." She also wrote a series of columns for The Washington Business Advisor, The Washington Post, and The Washington Business Journal, among others.

“I always have admired strong women,” p.m.terrell admits. “I think it came from listening to my father tell us stories about our ancestry, and all the strong women in our family. One ancestor, Paralee Drake, was left at home during the Civil War when her husband joined the Confederate Army. When a group of Union soldiers tried to steal the hams from the smokehouse, she stood in the doorway with her shotgun, and told them those hams were all she had to feed her seven children, and they would get to them over her dead body. Legend has it, they left her, her children and the hams alone.”

"Kickback" is the first suspense thriller in a series that casts female programmers in the lead roles - programmers who find themselves caught in life or death situations where they must use their knowledge and their guts to rescue themselves, a theme that was carried forward in "The China Conspiracy" and  "Ricochet."