Welcome to the Website of author Rissa Watkins.

Rissa Watkins was born with the soul of a writer. Her father, who taught English to unruly high school students, also taught her the love of the written word. It is a love that has lasted a lifetime.

She honed her craft telling tall tales as a child. She was first published at the age of ten with a book titled The Revenge of Remington Steele. Rissa garnered critical acclaim from her fellow fifth graders. Her four week run at her elementary school library was her first literary success.

Rissa left the exciting world of accounting to become a freelance writer and has never looked back. She writes for various print and online publications, but her first love will always be fiction. Rissa is working on her first novel, Dying to Find You. She also can be found crafting short stories for anthologies and ezines.

Rissa lives in the Arizona desert with her husband, son and rescued dog Mocha. When not huddled over her keyboard, typing furiously, she likes to cook Thai food and other culinary treats. She is a budding gardener who has turned her black thumb into something more Chartreuse.