About

You’ve reached the website and blog for Tracy Cooper-Posey, author of romantic suspense and erotic romantic suspense.

I also write as Teal Ceagh, writing erotic urban fantasy and paranormal romances for Ellora’s Cave.

I have a lot to say (you may have noticed when you landed here) and tend to be opinionated.  I also love a good discussion.

But you may have clicked on this page to learn about me, too, so here’s the dirt:

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Emma Darcy Award winning author of nearly thirty titles.

…an author I’ll pick up simply because her name is on the cover.
Kristi Ahlers, Amazon.com

…reminded me of why I fell in love with reading in the first place.
M.M. Gwynn, eBookConnections

…touches the heart and makes you feel everything.
Cherokee, Coffee Time Romance

…writes books which deserve a place on keeper shelves everywhere!
Julie Bonello, ECataRomance Reviews

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When I tell people I’ve been writing since I was 14 they tend to look at me a little oddly, but it’s quite true. I fell in love with Harrison Ford and Star Wars at the exact same moment, and wrote the unofficial sequel in the following year. Of course, I had Han Solo and Leia falling in love long before the sequel came along, and in much more satisfying fashion than George Lucas ever managed.

What I didn’t realize at the time, and not for another twenty years or so, was that I had been writing fanfic, possibly the first of its kind.

On a completely off-topic side-note, I used to lie awake at night, listening to the Star Wars soundtrack on my record player, and re-playing the movie in my head, fantasizing about how wonderful it would be to somehow be able to play the movie at home, whenever I wanted. Eight years later I saw my first Beta cassette player. It was the size of a small suitcase and weighed 45 pounds. A few years after that I got to buy my first VHS movie–Star Wars. That was a reflective moment in my life.

However, while things have clearly changed over the years since my first bad attempt at getting a hero and heroine together on paper, two things have not. I’m still writing romances, and I’m still throwing my hero and heroine through a fair imitation of hell while they’re sorting their feelings for each other out — the essence of romantic suspense.

But hey, here’s the boring stuff:  I’m Australian, although I live in Canada. I still have the accent, although I’ve been here over a decade now. And I still have trouble remembering it’s a hood, not a bonnet, and stuff like that — you’d be amazed how hard-wired culture really is. It calcifies internally, I think. But the mountains here are stupendous, so I think I’ll stick around. Besides, my husband is kinda cute. Oh yeah, did I forget to mention? I met him on the Internet back when it was a few HTML pages and a couple of bulletin boards or two, and me and the kids (three of us) packed up and moved here.

The kids are no longer really kids any more. They’re both taller than me now, but I didn’t say that aloud, okay? I’d still like them to think I’m the boss for a while longer, at least.

About Teal Ceagh

Teal Ceagh was created in mid-2009 to allow me to write wildly different types of erotic romances and market them without disrupting my already established readers.  I write possibly the mildest erotic romantic suspense Ellora’s Cave has to offer.  They even have a name for it:  Boiling plain vanilla.

Teal Ceagh writes the hottest of MMF ménage paranormal romance and urban fantasies that Ellora’s Cave have to offer, and that’s a pretty extreme jump from mild romantic suspense.  I didn’t want to readers to get whiplash crossing the two genres, and having two separate pen names makes marketing a lot easier.  Besides, I wanted to see if the writing stood on its own.  (It does…boy does it ever!)

By the end of 2009, however, disruptions in my personal life meant I couldn’t keep up with three blogs, three Facebook accounts, three sets of everything (I’d also been running a marketing business on the side, too).  So I brought Teal Ceagh “out,” which allowed me to bring her here to my home blog and melding the two sets of books and so forth.  That also meant telling the world who Teal really was, which would make my life considerably simpler.

There’s a small bonus in all this:  It also meant that Teal can start attending conferences, too.

Lots of people ask about the name, Teal Ceagh.

Actually, it’s still really my name.  It’s my intials:  TLC.  If you pronounce them, you’re saying Teal Ceagh.    “Ceagh” is pronounced “see” and it’s Irish.

Awards won and nominated for.

Emma Darcy Award, the Romance Writers of Australia. (the award is now retired) for Eyes of a Stranger.

Best Pastiche Award – Sherlock Holmes Society of Western Australia, for Chronicles of the Lost Years.

Carol Anne Sorel Encouragement Award for Writers

Best Original eBook in the Frankfurt eBook Awards for 2000, for Diana by the Moon.

RomantiCon 2009 Superstar Award for “Most Erotic Use of A Chocolate Chip Cookie” for Ningaloo Nights.

Nominated for Best Erotic Paranormal Romance for Beth’s Acceptance (Winner announced February 2010).

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About This Site’s Theme.

The background image that provides the colour inspiration for this site is a high resolution rendering of an original oil painting on canvas entitled Fall, Rain, Alley by Afremov.

I am the proud owner of the original oil painting, which has inspired several moody urban romantic suspense tales of mine.  It seemed appropriate to use the image for the overhaul of my site (January 2010).

The site’s Wordpress theme is frugal, a professional Wordpress theme.

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