Patricia Ann Ledford grew up in Kingsport, a small town in east Tennessee. An early career in politics evolved into managing marketing campaigns for corporate clients and ultimately into working on film projects and producing television programming. After forty years of copywriting for clients in Nashville and Chattanooga, she finally achieved a life-time goal of writing stories of her own creation. "Strings - The Story of Hope" is her first novel. She divides her time between writing in her North Carolina hideaway and enjoying family and cultural activities in Chattanooga. Her blog and book updates are available at www.palinks.net