She is married, is the mother of seven children and the grandmother of eleven. Her background is in marketing and public relations. Reid is from Northwest Illinois, near the town of Freeport, the home of her fictional characters. Abbiati’s book “The NORTAV Method for Writers – The Secrets to Constructing Prose Like the Pros.” She has also had the distinct privilege of guest blogging for Joe Konrath. She was also honored to have some of her works included in A. Reid has been quoted in a number of books about the self-publishing industry including “Let’s Get Digital” by David Gaughran and “Interviews with Indie Authors: Top Tips from Successful Self-Published Authors” by Claire and Tim Ridgway. She is also working on an audiobook for “Loose Ends.” Her books have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese and are also now also available through CreateSpace and Amazon in print versions. She has eight other books in the Mary O’Reilly Series and has enjoyed Top Rated and Hot New Release status for many of them in the Women Sleuths category through Amazon US. By the end of 2012, “Loose Ends” had sold over 82,000 copies and, as of the writing of this bio, was the number one bestselling book in Amazon’s ranking of Ghost Stories in the Book/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Horror/Ghosts section and the number two in the same area in the Kindle eBooks section.

An indie author, Reid uploaded her first book “Loose Ends” in August 2010. Terri Reid is the author of the Mary O’Reilly Paranormal Mysteries. As she digs further, she becomes the next target for the serial killers’ quest to tie up all his loose ends.

She unearths a connection between the murder and the disappearance of five little girls whose cases, twenty-four years later, are still all unsolved. Mary is hired to discover the truth behind the death. But now, as the Senator prepares to move on to higher positions, the ghost of the woman is appearing to the Senator’s wife. Twenty-four years ago, a young woman drowned in the swimming pool of a newly elected State Senator. Her challenge is to solve the mysteries, get real evidence (a ghost’s word just doesn’t hold up in court), and be sure the folks in town, especially the handsome new police chief, doesn’t think she’s nuts. Now, a private investigator in rural Freeport, Illinois, Mary’s trying to learn how to incorporate her experience as a Chicago cop and new-found talent into a real job. Well, actually, coming back from the dead and having the ability to communicate with ghosts is really what did it. Dying is what changed Mary O’Reilly’s life.

Loose Ends by Terri Reid