Carolyn Haley is a writer and editor living in rural Vermont. Through her business, DocuMania, she writes a mix of articles for regional and national magazines, and commercial copy for catalogues and websites. She also helps other authors with diverse projects through editing, proofreading, production, and education.

Ms. Haley began writing novels in her teens, and the first to be published was The Mobius Striptease, which arose from her questions about anomalies, spirituality, and reincarnation. She formulated answers in a romantic-suspense story centered around a metaphysical mystery addressing the hows and whys of psychic power.

At the other end of the spectrum, Ms. Haley’s nonfiction book, Open Your Heart with Gardens, explores the whys and hows of interacting with the living green world. It forms a volume in DreamTime Publishing’s Open Your Heart series, which helps people master their lives through what they already know. It won an Honorable Mention in two categories in the 2008 Indie Book Awards.

Ms. Haley’s yard and garden blog, Adventures in Zone 3, spun off this project.

Her work in progress, a young adult coming-of-age novel titled Louder than Words, involves the conflicts among a precocious teenage girl’s first loves: young men and horses. When not writing, Ms. Haley enjoys several outdoor pursuits—gardening, paddling, walking, riding, birdwatching—along with autosports and spectating the arts. Her enduring passion, however, is reading and writing books.