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I was in the hotel business, managing both Holiday Inn and Ramada offices while my first husband was in the service. I lived in Germany three years and traveled to Holland and France and took classes on base and also through Writer's Digest Correspondance School. Moving around the country, I was divorced in 1978 and remarried Robert D. Fletcher, a three-generation native Floridian with a commercial fishing business in 1981. He died in 2003 of cancer. The whole time I was moving around and in the hotel (and other business) I was writing for magazines, mostly MacFadden Enterprises in NYC, (that own) True Confessions, True Love True Romance & True Story; but also Today's Christian Woman. When I moved to the Tampa Bay area in 1980 (I had lived in Bradenton before that with my first husband and returned there after the divorce) I began working as the photographer for the Outdoor Section of The Tampa Tribune and have now worked in news in this area for about 35 years, having been a reporter; columnist and the editor of The Sun City Sun, The South Shore News, and Bureau Chief for The Tampa Tribune before I quit in 2007 to freelance. I have a couple of books on Amazon- I also used to edit books for Amazon's Publishing division. Now I work mainly off a website, www.pennyfletcher.com teaching writer's and editing manuscripts as well as writing for The Current (Brandon/Tampa & Apollo Beach- Sun City area) and The Observer News (Ruskin/Riverview & South Hillsborough County.) I write both fiction and nonfiction and love both. I have raised "three batches of kids"- mine in the 60s-70s- stepkids in the 1980s and got my granddaughter Ellie in 1999. She is now 15. I have never remarried since my late husband's death but am finally in a new relationship that could change that in time. I live in Tampa Bay most of the time, in Riverview- which I love and was chosen in 2012 as one of the 100 best places in the US to live by CNN's Money magazine!) but also own a small (22-acre) farm in west Tennessee that my oldest son Joe runs. Maybe someday I will be able to retire from news and spend spring there just writing books and the rest of the year on the beach- again- just writing books! My new sweetie, Mark, is just starting a cutting-edge mobile marketing business and will soon be moving permanently to Tampa Bay from the recently ravaged section of Oklahoma. Funny how people meet.