Deirdre Braud

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Petite Breaux (just Deirdre) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and grew up in Kansas City. She moved around until finally settling in Alabama. She has been in a long-distance relationship with her significant other for 20 years. Deirdre has three adult children, five grandchildren, and one grand dog who all live in Georgia.
Class of 1981 graduate from FL Schlagle High, Deirdre was a single parent and worked hard to provide for her family. At the age of 40, she attended Strayer University, where she obtained a master’s degree in business administration. Deirdre is a government employee by day, but in her spare time, her creative writing alter ego, Petite Breaux, takes center stage.

Since then, and under that pseudonym Petite Breaux, Deirdre has written a memoir Slightly Bruised and a Little Broken, a short story The Whispering of My Heart and a children’s book Fun with Grandma. She has recently released several short stories, a suspense novel, and is currently working on her final novel, The Journal, Nancy Bremen Story, to be released late 2019 under the name just Deirdre.
When she gets the time and has the inclination, Deirdre enjoys exercising at her local gym. She loves watching TV and movies and goes to the theater when there is something that grabs her attention. She also reads daily and is learning the guide of mediation to rejuvenate the soul.
Deirdre also enjoys getting away from it all on vacation, with cruising as her favorite pastime. She has plans to live her best life to the max and has done some of the things that scare her like ziplining and parasailing. She also plans to do a skydive one day.
In the future, Deirdre wants to make more time for her family, travel more , and write more books that will entertain across generations.

Smashwords Interview

Do you remember the first story you ever read, and the impact it had on you?
As a small child, I had this one book titled Sung Under The Silver Umbrella, it was part of a series of the Umbrella books. The book had sing-a-longs, rhythm and rhymes and children's poetry. Some included The owl and the Pussy Cat, The Mitten song, A Psalm of David (after that I wanted my own bible). Mother would help me read the book and sing the songs. From there I wanted to read more books. Mother bought me a collection of books, I cannot remember the name but the books were red and white numbered from one to twenty-two. Number ten was my favorite book, it had short stories and nursery rhymes. I ​always wondered what happened to that collection. Now, I am an avid reader and I love it.
What do you read for pleasure?
I love reading, it relaxes me and it can be stimulating at times. I get very involved with my reading it's as if I picture the characters being right where I am. There is no one genre book that I read, I read them all. It's amazing some of the imaginations writers and authors have. Romance, short stories, children's stories, erotica, fiction, non-fiction, spiritual, you name it I will read it. No one book is the same. I just don't base what book I will read by its cover, sometimes the title catches me. I have read so far all of James Patterson's Women's​ Murder Club editions, I just could not put the books down.
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