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Thea Ramsay

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Born

in Brockville, Canada

Website

http://www.dldbooks.com/thearamsay/

Genre

Fantasy, Young Adult, Science Fiction

Influences

Favorite authors include C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, and ...more

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November 2018

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Thea Ramsay (nee Darlene Adele Beckstead), was born completely blind, due to prematurity.
She attended the Ontario School for the Blind from 1970-1977, then moved with her mother (late) to British Columbia to be mainstreamed in a public school.
Despite being the only totally blind student in high school and college, Ramsay excelled in creative writing, English Literature, and Spanish. Though her experience hosting her own radio show on C.K.A.Y. in Duncan, BC, during her teens, failed to net her a job in broadcasting, she studied and worked in both acting and music.
In her spare time, she imagined and wrote stories of other worlds and aliens. But Ms. Ramsay didn't get a taste of the writing industry till she was in her mid-thirties, married t Thea Ramsay (nee Darlene Adele Beckstead), was born completely blind, due to prematurity.
She attended the Ontario School for the Blind from 1970-1977, then moved with her mother (late) to British Columbia to be mainstreamed in a public school.
Despite being the only totally blind student in high school and college, Ramsay excelled in creative writing, English Literature, and Spanish. Though her experience hosting her own radio show on C.K.A.Y. in Duncan, BC, during her teens, failed to net her a job in broadcasting, she studied and worked in both acting and music.
In her spare time, she imagined and wrote stories of other worlds and aliens. But Ms. Ramsay didn't get a taste of the writing industry till she was in her mid-thirties, married to a blind man, and raising two children.
Pink Rosettes, a novella about the Biblical Rapture and last days, was published by www.authorstreet.com It is no longer available.
Recently, she has published another novella, A Very Special House, fictional with a real foundation. After her health and marriage failed, she left Maui where she'd lived with her family for twelve years, to return to Canada. For years, she was tantalized every night by at least one dream about the house on Maui where she'd lived, dreaming that her marriage had worked and she was living there again, only to waken and readjust to the fact that she was alone, and her ex-husband dead. A Very Special House was the result, in which her character, Louise Falcon, experiences the same tantalizing dream of a domestic harmony that never really existed.
As chronic pain and inflammation from various diseases narrowed her horizons still further, Ms. Ramsay found herself alone after the death of her husband and friends and any remaining family moved away or passed away. As of this writing, she is fifty-three, and practically a shut-in. She devotes much of her time listening to Biblical podcasts and relies on her relationship with Jesus Christ.
It was in these circumstances she imagined Andorpha, the loving, romantic world inhabited by furry cat people whose law is love, where no one is alone. Lucy, recently published by Tellwell Talent, Inc., is the first book of a series that tells the story of a young girl and her best friend who flee to Andorpha from a war-ravaged Earth.
While Lucy has received some mixed reviews, Thea Ramsay is hard at work on the second book in the series, and thanks everyone for their support and encouragement.
She hopes to see Lucy on the big screen or on the musical stage, as was the book Wicked.
Of course, if someone wanted to produce "A Very Special House", she wouldn't quibble.
She lives in Toronto with her beautiful, fluffy cat, Theta.
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Average rating: 3.88 · 16 ratings · 7 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Lucy 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Very Special House it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	POO IN THE FACE: A Murray B. Dolphin Adventure (Follow a young bottlenose dolphin and his friends through a rollicking, sometimes dangerous, sea Book 1) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Thea Ramsay's Blog

A World Starved Of Beauty

After much hard work writing, and even harder work promoting “Lucy”, I finally have a check I can hold, get a copy of, and frame.

I’m now Thea Ramsay, professional author.

How did I celebrate? Simple. I read more stories, hoping to fuel this imagination. Or rather, I listened to those old stories featured on old-time radio, or OTR, for short.

They have all kinds of programs on OTR. Comedy, Westerns

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Thea Ramsay rated a book really liked it My Fake Rake (Union of the Rakes, #1) by Eva Leigh (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is quite a steamy book, with a friends-to-lovers story, which I feel is much more realistic than the "enemies-to-lovers" romances I have read. I can hardly call such books romances, as the two lovers are either fighting or screwing. This book, on ...more
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I gave this book high marks for being a page turner. As an action/thriller or espionage book, it certainly didn’t disappoint. This is about how communism was being used to destroy apartheid and the lives that all this rage ruined.
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Thea Ramsay made a comment on Debbie Zapata’s review of Rage (Courtney publication, #6; Courtney chronological, #20) " I am reading this in braille and didn’t realize it was part of a series. I haven’t gotten very far into it, but it definitely seems like a story about ...more "
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Thea Ramsay and 12 other people liked Debbie Zapata's review of Rage (Courtney publication, #6; Courtney chronological, #20): "This is number 6 of 17 Wilbur Smith titles featuring the fictional Courtney family of South Africa. I started my Courtney marathon with #4, The Burning Shore. Then I went on to #5 Power Of The Sword, and with this volume I have finished as much of the" Read more of this review »
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Thea Ramsay made a comment on Tellwell Publishing’s status in The Magic of Daydreaming " It sounds like a wonderful book. I wouldn’t mind reading it too. "
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You’re a wizard, JK. Is there anything you can’t write? This was one of the most delightful books I’ve ever read. I am a sucker for fantasy, and it seems JK can create a fantasy out of anything. I adore this woman. If I could write half as well as sh ...more
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