Betty Jo Schuler writes at her central Florida home, where she collects teddy bears, glass paperweights, and what her grown kids call “Betty Jo-isms—sayings you have to think about twice. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got,” is one she likes about writing.

“I suppose that’s why I write in several genres,” she says. “I like trying something different.” And she must, since her fifteen published books run the gamut from romance novels to anti-bullying non-fiction and range in audience age from early chapter books to adult fiction.

Betty Jo, who has a B.S. and M.A. in elementary education and taught school for twenty-three years, instructs online courses, “Fundamentals of Writing for Children” and “You can Write a Romance” for Writer’s Digest.”