In Your Next Beach Read, we want to introduce you to a new author every day in June in the hopes that you’ll find the next book you want to take with you to the beach, the pool, or the comforts of air conditioning.

Today’s author is Valerie Willis, author of Death and the Tattooed Angels Trilogy.

What’s your name and where are you from?

Valerie Willis, from Winter Garden, Florida to be exact.

How long have you been writing? How did you start?

I’ve always written from the time I fell in love with books and fiction. To this day, I still have a composition book filled with a handwritten story about a girl lost in Africa. During middle school, I was fortunate to have an encouraging English teacher who submitted much of my work to Young Anthologies. By high school, you could find me passing notes with…