About the Author
I J E Okello grew up in a family that attended church. She became born again as adult child, but it was not until 1974, when she recommitted her life to God through Christ that she started walking seriously with the Lord. She was born in Lango District, Uganda, East Africa, where she started her education, before she moved to the United States. She completed a BA (that included Bible classes) and an MBA while living in California, which helped her gain a broad professional experience, ranging from nonprofit organization, to the corporate world. After years of working in the business world, she is now focusing on her creative side.
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A writer of wholesome contemporary romance fiction from a Christian perspective, depicting life towards the end of the twentieth century to the present, I J E Okello incorporates her broad experience and faith to bring characters to life on paper. She participated in writers' conferences and workshops through the years––including Mount Hermon Christian Writers’ Conference. She loves the outdoors and dabbles in gardening, when the weather permits.
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It is a joy for her to write both fiction and nonfiction from a Judeo-Christian perspective.
How Did She Begin Writing?
I J E Okello loves clean literature with a comic twist. She cut her literary teeth reading different genres, including young adult romance, wholesome historical and regency romance, before she was plunged, temporarily, into the world of Shakespeare––well, sort of. She went through a period of searching for clean, light fiction to read at the end of an exhausting day, until she was introduced to Christian fiction.
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Her foray into writing started as a teenager––short stories, poetry and the likes,- - unpublished. After mulling over story ideas for some time, one day, she took a piece of paper and pencil, and began writing. In addition to The Van Clydens’ Family Fortune and 33 Miles to I Do, several other titles are on the way.
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Faith-based literature is wholesome and permits her, as a writer, to delve into the human soul and create characters that launch from their faith platform to wrestle with real life issues and mature. She loves that!