Christmas Through The Ages

Carla Kelly

Carla has always said that she only writes the books that she wants to read, which has made this whole writing business extra fun.

She wrote her first book at age six. It was called The Old Mill, and she wrote it on her mother's Olivetti-Underwood typewriter. It had a cover (she spent more time on the cover than the narrative), and consisted of two sentences. But Carla said it had a plot.

Carla was always writing something. She admits to going through that awkward, poetry-writing phase. Luckily, it passed. In high school (A.C.... more