Welcome back! On this week’s edition of Saturday Six, we have agents and editors galore. And have they got some fun facts about themselves for you…

Edwina Perkins

1. Until my senior year in high school, I’d wanted to be a concert pianist. I loved to practice four to five hours (or more) a day.
2. I wrote my first “book” when I was in the eighth grade. My teacher allowed me to present a book report on my manuscript. I still have the 300+ hand-written pages.
3. I’m 100% introverted. With one evaluation, my rank was the “dot” on the left side of the page next to the instructions on how to read the chart. If an individual is capable of being more than 100% introverted, that would be me.
4. I home schooled for nineteen years, twelve of which were high school. I’m pleased to say all four kids and I survived.
5. My twin brother and I have kids born on the same day two years apart. As I mentioned, I’m a twin and I gave birth to twins. One of those twins is engaged to a twin.
6. I was a vendor with Nordstrom. I crafted mother/daughter shirts which they sold in their Seattle, WA store.

Deb Haggerty

1. I always wanted to be a doctor, but a C in Chemistry and a C minus minus in Calculus followed by a C in Field Zoology ended that dream. So, I majored in English instead, where my first grade (a Shakespeare seminar) was a C!
2. I once sang the “Hallelujah Chorus” at Carnegie Hall (with about 300 other people)!
3. I still have my first Teddy Bear—Trudy Marie Teddy Bear Ogle Haggerty.
4. One of the joys of my college years was reading my (very bad) poetry in a coffee shop accompanied by a blind flutist.
5. I was always very shy. In college, I’d cut classes, rather than walk in after they’d begun because I didn’t want people looking at me.
6. I’ve worked as a lifeguard, a secretary, in sales, in marketing, as a consultant, as a professional speaker, an editor, a publisher, and as a piano teacher. The first and the last were the most fun.

Julie Gwinn

1. I was almost shot by Secret Service while working for AP during Reagan’s second inauguration.
2. My dream job = writing for National Geographic.
3. I was a party crasher for a chance to see Tom Hiddleston and Keifer Sutherland.
4. I would rather bake than cook.
5. I’m an avid DIYer.
6. I’m Northerner by birth but Southerner by choice.

Vicki Crumpton

1. I love to work on bicycles.
2. Stray cats seem to find me in remarkable ways.
3. I like kale. But not as much as I like chocolate.
4. There are five bird feeders outside my office windows.
5. One of my favorite book projects was Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven.
6. My neck and my road bicycle are both titanium and carbon fiber.

Tamela Hancock Murray

1. “C” marks in penmanship kept me off the honor roll in first grade.
2. I graduated from Lynchburg College with honors in journalism.
3. I love representing Christian romance novels even more than I love writing them.
4. I’m the author of Bible trivia books for both kids and adults.
5. At my first book signing, I used a stick pen. My husband valued my achievement as an author and bought me my first fine pen for future book signings.
6. If you want to learn more about my pen collection, let me know if you prefer Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, or Marilyn Monroe.

Diana Flegal

1. My mother is one of 12 children. Her youngest sister, my aunt Donna is only two years older than me. Every Sunday after church, my cousins, brother, and Uncles and Aunts (many in similar age brackets) put on plays for our family in my grandmother’s basement. We would stretch blankets across a doorway and make a grand entrance when our presence was needed. That is when I learned the power of performance-based applause.
2. I was the only girl saxophone player in our high school band. When the boys kept blaming me for their mistakes, I quit. I hocked my sax for $10.00. One of the things I wish I hadn’t done, but it seemed like a great idea at the time.
3. My father was a unique, fun guy. He was a UFO and Bigfoot investigator in western PA. He would often wake me in the middle of the night. Once outside, he’d heft me onto the roof of our car and hand me binoculars to watch a UFO cross the sky. I quickly learned not to share stories of our nightly exploits at school.
4. I have hang-glided at Kitty Hawk, SC. If I had been independently wealthy at the time, I would have pursued that skill.
5. As a medical missionary, I pulled teeth and performed minor mouth surgeries in Haiti, working with Mission Possible and Mother Teresa’s volunteer doctor group at her Dying Hospital.
6. An automobile accident the summer between my Junior and Senior years of high school required I be placed in a body cast for four months. The first months of my Senior year, I took my lessons at home. When the cast was removed, I had to learn to walk again. Though this was a tough experience for a person of my young age (the driver of the car I was in was killed), this accident redirected my spiritual walk.