Colleen Helme

Colleen Helme is a bestselling mystery author best known for writing the Shelby Nichols series of novels. She wrote her first novel “Flame of Destiny” the first of the Flame of Destiny series of novels in 2011. While it was just for kicks, she enjoyed it so much that she decided that she needed to learn all about becoming a professional author. Her supportive husband soon found her a community college with a writing class and she was soon learning about the art of novel writing. The class helped her with aspects of writing such as scene writing, character motivation, and showing rather than telling among many others. She has never looked back since and has been writing for more than a decade. She currently has several series to her name including the “Shelby Nichols Adventure” series, the “Flame of Destiny” Series and several single standing novels. Helme cites her biggest influences as C.S. Lewis of “The Chronicles of Narnia” for their wisdom. She also loves the world-building in the science fiction works of Catherine Asaro and everything by Jude Deveraux and Madeline Brent. All of these have been a huge influence and made her the writer she is today. She currently lives with her family in the Rocky Mountains. When she is not writing her novels, she loves to go hiking, biking, relax with a good book and play card and board games with friends and family.