The Blue Flame

Barbara M Hodges moved to Nipomo, CA twenty years ago from the San Francisco area. She and her husband Jeff met and married in Salem, Oregon in 1972, but both are California natives. She has always had a love for words and stories, but didn’t begin to write until her move to the central coast. Her first book, The Blue Flame, was published in 1994. Since then Barbara has written, six other published fiction novels. Barbara is a huge NASCAR fan -- go, Carl Edwards -- and she and Jeff try to make it to at least one race a year in their motor home. Of course the two basset hounds that own them, Ophelia and Hamlet always go along too. Their sassy feline, Wallace, remains at home to guard the castle. When she can find some time away from writing, Barbara also enjoys dabbling with tole painting.