Emily-Jane Hills Orford is an award-winning author of several books, including Gerlinda which received an Honorable Mention in the 2016 Readers' Favorite Book Awards, To Be a Duke which was named Finalist and Silver Medallist in the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and received an Honorable Mention in the 2015 Readers' Favorite Book Awards, F-Stop: A Life in Pictures, which was named Finalist in the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and The Whistling Bishop, which was named Finalist in the 2011 Next Generatioin Indie Book Awards. She writes about the extra-ordinary in life and her books, short stories, and articles are receiving considerable attention.