I was born in Texas in 1976 to Roger and Kathy Braziel. My father named me after the character Jaime Sommers in "The Bionic
Woman", although with a different spelling, because he liked the show so much. I always had a good laugh every time someone
tried to say our last name because they almost always got it wrong. Still do. It's pronounced just like the country Brazil by the way.

I have one sibling, a younger brother named Jerry. We typically got along well although we did have the occasional wrestling
match officiated by my dad. He's married now, and my sister-in-law is the best thing that ever happened to him. They have a
son, my sweet little nephew whom I adore, and live in Oklahoma, so I only get to see them every couple of months, but we have a
blast.

We moved to Oklahoma when I was about three years old to a little town called Willis just outside of Kingston. I went to
elementary and middle school at Kingston, and during that time, my dad was called to preach. His first church was in Kingston,
but during the summer between my eighth and ninth grade years, Dad was called to the very small town of Wapanucka
(population 402 at the time).

I started high school in Wapanucka a couple of weeks late. It was a pretty big adjustment because it was a much smaller school
without the extensive curriculum to which I was accustomed, but I adapted and enjoyed the two-and-a-half years we spent there.
Then my dad resigned, and we moved back to Kingston where I finished my high school career as valedictorian. I was awarded a
scholarship to Southeastern Oklahoma State University, in Durant, Oklahoma. I majored in English because I loved books so
much and thought I wanted to be a teacher, and minored in French.

After graduation, I took various jobs in order to obtain some experience and sample different careers. After deciding that neither
teaching nor the law was for me, I went to work for a bank, and I'm still there as a financial analyst now working towards a Master's
degree in accounting. Go figure!

I've never been married and don't have any kids. I'm not against either one, but I'm not actively seeking them out either. I guess
you could say that I'm waiting on God to send me the man He has chose. Between working, going to school, promoting my book
on the web, and playing and singing with the Circle J Cowboy Church Band (my dad's latest pastorate), I stay quite busy and
happy.

Declaring Spinsterhood is my very first novel, but not the first attempt, and I certainly hope it's not the last. It has been an
exciting experience from the very first time I sat before my laptop on November 1, 2006 and typed the opening words, "It was the
wedding of her dreams."

My favorite authors are Stephenie Meyer, Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Daphne DuMaurier, L.M. Montgomery, Louisa May
Alcott, Jean Plaidy, Janet Evanovich, and I better stop here, or I'm going to run out of room.