: About Me

Sports, animals, and writing have been lifelong interests of Barbara Anne Helberg. Now in her post-family years and living on the banks of the Maumee River, of Erie and Maumee Canal fame, Ms. Helberg claims fulltime retirement means retiring completely to the fulltime muse of the pen.

Beginning in 2007, Internet writing has given her a rewarding writing outlet and experience; and one that may be uniquely shared.  

Ms. Helberg is a graduate of "The Famous Writers' School" of Westport, Connecticut (1968) and a certificate holder in "How to Write Contemporary Fiction", conducted by Dr. Dennis Hensley through the University of Toledo, Ohio, Division of Continuing Education (1995). She also has successfully completed two Writer's Digest School programs, "The Novel Writing Workshop" (1997), and "Writing and Selling Short Stories" (2002).

In 2007, Ms. Helberg participated in the American Writers and Artists Inc. correspondence course, "How to Successfully Write and Publish Children's Books". 

In 1964 and 1965, and again from 1983 to 1993, Ms. Helberg was busy writing articles as a government and sports reporter for the Northwest-Signal newspaper located in Napoleon. Henry County's small town councils was her beat. She also published several feature articles in the Signal and served as a freelancer in sports and government reports for the nearby Deshler Flag and the former Leipsic Messenger.

In almost nine years spent living in Vermont (1972-1980), Ms. Helberg helped found Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church and create and edit its newsletter.

In self-publishing endeavors, Ms. Helberg has published "Connections", booklets for young writers, and "Novels In A Nutshell", her own novelette length fictional yarns.

Although the art of fiction has been Ms. Helberg's greatest writing passion through sixty-plus years, generally putting words to paper (or typewriter-word processor) continues to fascinate and motivate her for the future. 

My passion is ...

putting words to paper.

I know too much about ...

living on the edge of a weekly paycheck.

My parents always told me ...

honesty and a sense of humor will get you there (anywhere).

My childhood ambition ...

was, and always has been, to be a worthy writer.

My favorite memory ...

is time spent in the fields and on the lands of our family farm, especially with the cows, those calm and unassuming creatures of habit who nonetheless took nothing for granted.

Why I write ...

because it's living...writing, creativity with words, is my constant and all-time high.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I'm always reading Dick Francis and Walter Farley, watching sports events, and listening to my inner voice that says, "Write, write, write, for now is the time of your life!"

My first job ...

was brief, sorting tomatoes in a plant in tiny New Bavaria, Ohio, but after that I got my first writing job, as a reporter with the Napoleon Northwest-Signal.

My best moment ...

was my most humbling, holding my newborn grandchild.

My inspiration ...

is a strange combination of nature's powerful, unconquerable bodies of water and the spirit of Rocky Balboa, the unconquerable underdog.

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