Gene Strother writes from Texas, where a wife, three daughters, and four grandsons have given him more material than he'll ever run out of. For years he told his stories under the pen name L.A. Holly ? stitched together from his daughters' names Ashley, Lacey, and Holly ? including the 2002 novel The Preacher's Kid. He's since retired that name to write as himself. By day, Gene leads a school that trains insurance claims adjusters; by calling, he's a writer and speaker with forty years of stories still coming ? including a 2027 re-release of The Preacher's Kid, back under his own name for the first time.