Sheley Rayne was a quirky teen who rummaged through condemned buildings and played among tombstones. Once upon a time, she was a diagnostic technician in the field of fusion and pulse-power technology. (Machines who mothered CERN) An author, screenplay writer, and artist with a bent toward the macabre, she turned in her scientific hardhat for novels and pencils. Sheley teaches high-school robotics, technology, and criminal forensics. This might be why she writes YA horror novels about controversial machines set in altered realities, where gargoyles, darklings, fallen angels, and demons wreak havoc against human souls. Her characters face life-threatening challenges against monsters, science, and faith, but worse, they face impossible odds against themselves. She believes our scars make us unique and beautiful because no matter the outward battle, the ones we face inwardly are the most important. We are all curiosity cabinets, filled with shadows of wonder, gifts and talents, light and darkness. Sheley is a seeker of BLISS, and her bliss blooms in the worlds she creates, and within the characters she befriends, through the cards she designs, and when she is teaching and encouraging others.
