Teena Booth is a 42-year-old mother of three and writer of novels (Falling From Fire), TV movies (A Little Thing Called Murder) and a New Age Web site (this one.)
She was born and raised in Los Angeles, the oldest child of news reporter and actress, the very beautiful Carol McEvoy. Teena, along with her sisters Wendi and Kim, grew up in two very different worlds at once. During the week they lived with their mother in the anything-goes hippie world of 1970s L.A., and on weekends and summers they lived with their great-grandmother in a religion-soaked house with prayers before supper and bed, and a requirement to memorize Bible verses. This unique upbringing left Teena with a deep appreciation of relative truth and an ability to tolerate paradox. (See her New Age Journey)
After a quick stab at community college, Teena joined the U.S. Air Force to see the world and have adventures. At the end of her tour of duty, she became a mother to her first son, Scott. When he was four months old, Scott’s father died in a motorcycle accident, leaving 22-year-old Teena to raise their child alone.
A sidetrip into the U.S. Coast Guard (it was harder than it looked) was followed by a new marriage, and the arrival of her daughter Natalie. Raising children, writing a bunch of not-very-good novels, reading Emerson and Alan Watts, along with walking in the woods of Northern California and Oregon, kept her busy through another marriage and the birth of her third child, Evyn.
Once she moved to Phoenix, Arizona, her writing skills had improved enough to land her jobs as a journalist, then editor of a trade magazine, on to editor of a legal newspaper. She sold her first novel, Falling From Fire, to Random House in 2002. That same year, her screenplay Showstopper -- a script she wrote to come to terms with the suicide of her very beautiful mother -- won a prestigious Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship. She spent a year commuting back and forth to L.A., learning the art of screenwriting. Not long afterward, she got her first assignment from Lifetime Television to adapt a true-crime book into a script, and a TV movie writing career was launched.
Today, Teena still lives in Phoenix with her three exceptionally cool and attractive children and two cats. And after seeing some of the world, having many adventures and having most all of her dreams come true, she still carries with her a deep appreciation of relative truth and the ability to tolerate paradox.
You may contact her at tbooth4@cox.net.
