Official Bio
The one I keep short & snappy
Eileen M. Ruvane is a writer, mystery lover, and entrepreneur who always dreamed of writing books for children. Even though she technically wrote her first book in third grade, her professional writing career started in New York City, where she worked in public relations, advertising, and marketing. Realizing she'd rather write about her own business, she traded her briefcase for a brew kettle and moved to the mountains, where she and her husband co-founded and continue to run a brewpub and craft distillery. When she’s not writing about their restaurant, Eileen pens middle grade adventures, young adult mysteries, and funny picture books. She and her husband are parents to three amazing children.
Longer Bio
The one where I ramble on
Growing up, I wanted to be a lot of things: park ranger, starting shortstop for the Mets, dragon herder, detective, rollercoaster designer, inventor. Then one day it hit me: if I was a writer, I could invent entire worlds and be anything I wanted! So, I quickly settled on writing. Specifically, writing mysteries and adventures. More specifically, writing mysteries and adventures from the circular glass tower at the top of a haunted house on a cliff overlooking the ocean during a thunderstorm. (One of my more practical brothers sadly informed me that a glass house on a cliff overlooking the ocean would require a lot of insurance that I would not be able to afford.)
I wrote my first book in third grade, covertly writing a story instead of memorizing state capitals. When I got busted by my teacher, she gave me the whole afternoon off to write, illustrate and bind (staple) my book. She even placed it on the classroom bookshelf. (Shout out to the wonderful Miss Lake!)
Over the years, I continued writing stories for fun, for friends, and eventually for my three amazing children. But I also started doing a different kind of writing. I worked for a decade as a public relations manager on Wall Street, then started my own freelance consulting business, where I wrote marketing, advertising, and web content. When I’d had enough of writing about other people’s businesses, my husband and I decided to start our own. We traded in our briefcases for some brew kettles and moved our family to the Pocono Mountains, where we co-founded Barley Creek Brewing Company, a restaurant, brewpub, and small batch distillery. We had absolutely no experience, but we worked hard, we dreamed big, and we were both too stubborn to give up.
One of the great things about having your own business is you get to do the things you love. Sadly, I never got to play pro baseball (I can't hit the curve ball), but we run bus trips to ballgames for our customers, sell our products at minor league stadiums, and even built a wiffleball field behind our restaurant where we once struck out a future MLB All-Star (true story). And while I don't live in a haunted house by the ocean (at least I don't think it's haunted), I’m currently writing a middle-grade book that brings together my love for baseball with a lot of other fun stuff that excites me, like real-life mysteries, riddle-driven treasure hunts, strange superstitions, and the power of believing in yourself.
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TLDR:
I make stuff up.
There were six of us kids, but we couldn't all fit on the bike.
Sadly, ponies did not wander around the streets of Queens. I wanted to ride, even though the photographer said ponies are for pictures only. But in my imagination, we galloped down my one-way street to save the world. I wrote five stories about that pony.
You
Gotta
Believe
Trip and I will never stop believing that the New York Mets will win the World Series again some day.