About me

M. E. Nevill was born and raised in Alexandria, Louisiana. Upon graduation from Catholic High School, she attended business collage, married, raise three children with her husband of fifty-eight years, and worked to help support the family until her retirement in 2002. It was at this time she decided to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming an author.

As life would have it, a family tragedy occurred, delaying the start of her long awaited second career. Surprisingly, she found writing actually helped get her through three years of waiting for restitution and putting her life back on track. It’s doubtful the reader will recognize the sizable grief she was carrying when she wrote her first book, Do You Believe In Magic? Most of the characters are named after family members she has lost and that are still living.

M. E. Nevill belongs to two writer’s groups, sponsored by the Rapides Parish Library in Alexandria. She recommends all writers interested in improving their craft to join such groups. Also, she feels reading is essential because it keeps a kind of rhythm going in your head. She also belongs to Cenla Author’s Club which meets once a month where both aspiring and seasoned authors get together to assist one another in everything from learning how to construct a manuscript, all the way through to getting published.

The genre of her first two books, Do You Believe In Magic? and Land Of The Giants fall into the magical realism category. The third book is more historical as well as personal, because the main characters are her father, who narrates the story, an uncle, who is the main character, and her grandmother, and is set in early twentieth century Alexandria.