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Early Life and Background of Author Ci Ci Soleil
Born an urban Northerner, Ci Ci enjoyed the bounty of experiences provided to a young girl by the city. Close by friends and neighbors, schools you could walk and bike to, and always something in the offering to do on the weekends from zoos or museums with your best friend to science centers with your family, to family gatherings with grandparents and cousins.
Moving to a rural, isolated landscape for her adolescent years, Ci Ci loved the quiet green space and found solace in her imaginary friends, who helped fill the long stretch of the hours. Art quickly became a companion, and Ci Ci turned to paint as a way to funnel her rather boisterous energy. Painting gave way to sculpting in her 20s, making room for music. However, as life moved on and the demands of jobs required traveling, she discovered that taking paints with you is cumbersome and smelly, clay is incredibly messy and heavy, and carrying around a guitar requires the kind of hutzpah that naturally flows from those with both a real talent at the instrument and a desire to show it off.
But the source of the creative spirit doesn’t accept excuses, and the boredom of airplanes and hotel rooms is not satisfied by just thinking about artistic expression. So those imaginary friends started to knock at the inner door once again, and Ci Ci discovered the joy of developing a new world and filling it with characters, some quirky, some funny, some exasperating, but all experiencing the ups and downs of everyday life. So far, she’s working on book number eight.
Writers often muse on how, upon finding out that one is a writer, acquaintances will oft remark, “you should write my story,” and proceed to share their tale.
The same has been true for Ci Ci—airports and poolside, at parties and conferences—people love to talk about their lives. It seems that truth is stranger than fiction, and their stories have served as a fun source of inspiration for the quirky, crazy events experienced by her “imaginary friends,” who live only on the pages of the books. Ci Ci loves to write stories of people who could be real (but aren’t—yes, sadly, they are truly fictional folk just inspired by real events) and who live in places that are real—yes, you could follow the map of the story and visit many of the places described in work.
Ci Ci does have a day job, which has grown into a rather big day job over the years. Given the heavy load, she needed something different and fun to help unwind her brain and recharge her energy. On top of that, all the hours of plane time provide a lot of ‘butts in seats’ opportunity with fingers to a keyboard. Yes, many of these stories were crafted while flying or sitting in the car with her husband driving.
Although she has been doodling around with writing stories for twenty-five years, in 2015, she got serious about it or gave any consideration to publishing them. After reading a story-in-development to her family in the evenings, with her boys rolling around on the floor laughing and gasping for breath, she considered that others might find the escapism offered in the pages worth the trip.
With amazing support from family and enthusiastic encouragement from friends, she embarked on sharing her work. Working with PUBLISHER NAME, she began publishing the stories and opening paths to connect with readers who shared her love of an amusing tale that helps us laugh at ourselves while also making a point about who we are and the relationships and choices we run to or run away from.
Ci Ci Soleil has planted her roots in the New American South. While squeezing chickens, a goat, and too many fruit trees onto a tiny farm not-quite-suited-to-the-task keeps her and her family busy, everyone realizes it’s the dogs in charge. Cici loves spending her time writing and still paints and occasionally sculpts. However, there is never enough time between her two boys, an incredibly supportive husband, all those animals, and yes, that pesky day job.