Welcome to my corner of the world ~ I’m Theresa Sneed, author of the No Angel series, the Sons of Elderberry series, the Escape series,  the Salem Witch Haunt series, and my nonfiction books: the So You Want to Write, Fantastic Covers and How to Make Them, and Facing Mortality: Dreams & Other Significant Things.

All of my books are clean, sweet, and intense, with no profanity or sexually explicit scenes. Check out the awesome reviews for all of my books on Amazon.com, Goodreads, or right here on this website.

Most of my books are available in paperback, eBook, and hardcover. They’re all available in paperback and eBook. Leave a comment ~ I’d love to know what you think!

 

Salem Witch Haunt series:

Book one – Salem Witch Haunt 

When she finds herself thrust back in time, seventeen-year-old Bess Martin, a senior at Danvers High, sets out on a mission to save her eleventh great-grandmother from the gallows-tree. With a near-perfect knowledge of the historical events about to unfold, Bess knows the untimely fate of many. The problem is that Bess has inherited her grandmother’s sharp tongue—a tongue that caused her grandmother to be tried and hanged as a witch in Salem Village, 1692. Can Bess stop the hangings and change the course of history, or will she share her grandmother’s fate?

 

 

 

Book Two – Return to Salem 

Through a series of ill-fated events, Bess Martin finds herself thrust back to Salem in the middle of the Salem witch trials. Last time, her sharp tongue earned her ‘high suspicion of sundry acts of Witchcraft’, and she barely escaped with her life. Will Hezekiah, the brave young man who came through the rift to the future with her three years earlier, follow Bess back to Salem and rescue her before her quick temper decides her fate?

 

 

 

 

Book Three – Salem Bewitched 

Accused as a witch in Salem 1692, teenage time-traveler, Bess Martin, narrowly escapes back to the twenty-first century. But she accidentally brings friends from Salem with her, including Hezekiah, the handsome young man who has stolen her heart. Warned that time travel was messing with her mind, Bess is reluctant to return again, but wants to help the unwitting travelers. Once back in Salem, she discovers a problem with the timeline she caused and now must fix. Unfortunately, it’s just days before the last of the hangings and the pressing to death of Giles Corey. Knowing she’ll witness the gruesome deaths of the accused, how will she be able to hold her quick tongue and not suffer the same fate as those hanged that horrific day in September?

As the ninth great-granddaughter of Susannah North Martin, this topic has always intrigued me. I researched it high and low, and what I discovered will amaze you. Every instance involving Susannah in my book, or any of the other victims of the Salem tragedy, is  based on primary sources. Let me know what you think. 

Stranger Than Fiction

Stranger Than Fiction, is Salem Witch Haunt verbatim. The only difference is added footnotes leading the reader to the primary sources Theresa Sneed used to write her historical fiction. As the 9th great-granddaughter of Susannah Martin, one of the women hanged as a witch in Salem, Theresa has a vested interest in telling her grandmother’s story as accurately as possible. Add a teenage time-traveler to the mix and you have a delightful, enthralling story based on factual evidence archived over 300 years ago.

So You Want to Write: A Guide to Writing Your First Book – book one

I’ve had many people ask me how to write a book. For years, I have added content to this website in response to that question, and so now I have compiled all of the answers into my first nonfiction book on writing. So You Want to Write: A Guide to Writing Your First Book is a short but informative book that takes the new author through fifteen steps from preparing a writing sanctuary to marketing.

Step 1. Get your writing sanctuary ready
Step 2. Schedule a consistent time to write
Step 3. Begin an ideas page or folder
Step 4. Brainstorm ideas
Step 5. Storyboarding
Step 6. Develop your writing
Step 7. Find beta readers
Step 8. Start a new writing project
Step 9. Revise and edit your manuscript
Step 10. Hire a professional editor
Step 11. Revise and edit again
Step 12. Format your book
Step 13. Create your cover
Step 14. Publish your book
Step 15. Marketing

 

So You Want to Write series book two – Fantastic Covers and How to Make Them

Theresa walks you through how to create the perfect cover with little out of pocket cost, including a bonus chapter on how to format your novel. Follow her as she shows you step by step how she created some of her fantastic covers!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Facing Mortality: Dreams and Other Significant Things

par·a·nor·mal     adj.  Beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation.

I was only nine years old when I had my first experience with the paranormal—definitely beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation. – Theresa Sneed

When author Theresa Sneed finds herself in the ICU with a condition her doctor would later reveal most people die from, she sets about pulling old files together to explain her unique beliefs based on her personal experiences.

FACING MORTALITY was written while in the hospital recovering from deep-vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. Throughout her life, Theresa has had some incredible experiences with the spirit world that would later drive her to write her NO ANGEL series and many of her other works.

 

 

No Angel series:

Angel with an Attitude, Earthbound Angel, Destiny’s Angel   Earth Angel and Harold Angel Sing are the first five books in the No Angel Series, with many more to come. People often ask me why I write about angels ~ I write about angels, because I believe in them. I can’t imagine that God would send us to earth without their extra help. Read my novels, and see if you don’t believe in them too!

A few reviews for the series:

Theresa Sneed tells a captivating story about the life we lead and the parallel world of angels and demons walking beside us. This book will make you laugh, cry and wonder about the life beyond this one and the angels and demons who inhabit that unseen world. ~ Kristy Tate

I was simply amazed with the character’s names the author came up with. The vivid details and the story’s plot were astounding. This remarkable book would make a wonderful and inspiring movie. I’m surprised nobody has thought of doing it yet. It has all the makings for one with it’s happy, sad and witty realisms of Heaven. I found myself with many emotions from sadness to fear to laughing out loud. It’s not a religious book but rather the author’s interpretation of what the hereafter consists of. It’s a delightful read from an excellent author whose ability to bring Heaven to earth. Thank you Ms. Sneed. – Mahjion

Book One – Angel with an Attitude (formerly called No Angel)

Jonathan Stewart is not at all happy about having to return to earth as a guardian angel, but it’s required of all post-mortal spirits to fulfill at least one angel guardianship. Fortunately, on the Guardians Unlimited application, he had the good sense to request a client with early-marked-death status, so he believes that while his stay on earth will be most unpleasant, at least it will be short. What he doesn’t know is that a spirit with EMD status can choose his or her time of death! Jonathan’s client, Celeste Knight, has a mind of her own and refuses death at every turn, leaving him stuck as her guardian angel in a place he only wanted to forget.

 

 

Book Two – Earthbound Angel  (formerly called Earthbound)

Heaven used to be such a perfect place . . .

As the time draws near for the first spirits to leave their home in heaven, a group of rebellious dissenters begins to appear at every blue-planet planning meeting, demanding that all mortals are ruled by compulsory choice, instead of having the freedom to choose for themselves. Daniel is a courageous Freedom Fighter who vehemently opposes the No Choice movement. Sophie is impressed by his strong desire to do what’s right . . . and by his intense blue eyes. But she also has a strange attraction to the handsome and ostentatious Coe, a leader of the No Choice movement, who has his sights on her and will stop at nothing to claim her as his own.

Earthbound Angel is set in heaven, because if you believe in angels, you’ve got to believe in heaven too, and I do. When I was a little girl, I thought that my spirit and body were created at the same time when I was born, but through study and inspiration, I have come to believe that my spirit was created a long time before my body, and that I lived as a spirit child in heaven with heavenly parents, along with all of you. So, I tried to imagine that . . . I hope you enjoy the results of my imagination.

 

Book Three – Destiny’s Angel

Destiny’s Angel takes the main character in Earthbound Angel (the spirit child, Sophie) and has her born on Earth as Angie. As a teenager, Angie makes a few bad choices and finds herself captive on a cruise ship bound for Spain.

This book weaves the spiritual aspects of the first two books into realistic, mortal settings, retaining guardian angels and sheydim (demons) throughout. Destiny’s Angel is a suspenseful story about Angie trying to escape from the hands of human traffickers.

 

Book Four – Earth Angel

Earth Angel continues the No Angel saga following Sophie, Daniel, and Coe on earth, and Jonathan and Celeste in heaven, as well as other No Angel favorites: Grace, Markus, and Horace, along with the ever annoying throng of sheydim.

The drama from the previous summer had died down and Angie hoped for a somewhat normal senior year at Foxcroft Academy High School. It would have been fine, if the handsome Liam Powers hadn’t moved into town. Unbeknownst to her, Liam, formerly known as Coe in heaven, is the one person she hoped she would never run into on earth. It would have been a lot easier if Daniel had been born in America instead of thousands of miles across the ocean. Will their guardian angels be able to get them together in time, or will Angie’s strong attraction to Liam ruin her chances of finding true love?

 

Book 5 – and my personal favorite, Harold Angel Sing

Harold wields the flaming sword of the Cherubim. A warrior in Heaven, he fights valiantly against evil. It is now his turn to come to Earth. Just as the Cherubim before him, he is born into a lesser-functioning body, for the trial of Earth is not meant to be his, but for all those he comes in contact with. He doesn’t always stay trapped in his body. In the evening, when everyone sleeps, Harold ventures out.

I’ve wanted to write this book for years. I have a personal belief that some if not all special needs children are far more than we see – you will laugh and you will cry throughout this book. It’s my favorite.

 

 

Sons of Elderberry series:

Book one – Elias of Elderberry 

Elias Rey, a fifteen year old student at Penquis Valley High School, is skinny, has a chipped tooth, and a bad case of acne. His favorite pastime is drawing dragons, and his room is plastered with his renditions.

Tested out as a genius, he should be in college instead of high school, but he chooses to be with the only family he has ever known, his foster sister, Lizzie, and his best friend, Jaron.

Life is good, except for one thing – Brute, the meanest student at PVHS. Elias considers moving to be rid of Brute’s constant bullying, until one fated day, when a strange boy pushes a leather pouch into his hands, and then mysteriously disappears, leaving Elias to wonder who he is. Shortly thereafter, Elias discovers that the pouch contains Ilesar, an ancient papyrus that can give him anything his heart desires. He isn’t going to be pushed around. Ever. Again. At least, not by the school bully.

 

Book Two – The Wood Fairies of Estraelia

How will Elias’s brothers fight the dark forces of sorcery and rescue Saulen from the dungeons of Sirusas? And what of the dragon egg that Adalee took from the caves in the eleven kingdom of Eldervale? Will she be able to keep the egg a secret in the non-dragon fairy kingdom of Estraelia? And what will she do if the egg hatches?

 

 

The Escape series:

Book one – Escape

Escape is a gripping suspense novel by Theresa Sneed. Theresa crafts a powerful mystery that grabs the reader’s attention and doesn’t let it go, even with the last word. – Rachel Andersen

Escape, by Theresa Sneed, is a well-crafted and timely romance. Fast paced, intriguing, with plenty of twists, this novel is a roller coaster ride. – Susan G. Haws, author

I just finished Escape and loved it. Read it in three days … the story pulled me right in, right away, and right on … I couldn’t put it down until I finished. I had to know what was going to happen. Great storylines, great plot, great villain. I will read the next one. – Amazon-a-holic

Sam recognizes the signs of abuse and gives her and Sally a safe place to hide, while he takes off on a perilous journey to Taunton, MA to clear her name from the nationwide smear campaign the sheriff initiates, and the reward money he cunningly hangs over her head. Sam must hurry before the corrupt sheriff uncovers the trail that leads to his cabin and to the young woman and little girl he is trying to protect.

 

Book 2 – You Can’t Hide

 

Held captive for years, Elle suffered horrific abuse that left her skittish, apprehensive, and afraid of everything. But her abuser is in prison, locked up, on death row. So, how did the distinctive, gold-lettered band from an expensive Cuban cigar, illegal in the United States, and the exact brand he smoked, wind up on the floor of Elle’s jeep? When she finds things that could only have come from him, she questions her sanity, and wonders if she’ll ever be rid of him, but that’s crazy—how can he possibly hurt her from death row?

 

 

Book 3 – Find Her Keep Her

Introducing, Find Her Keep Her the final book in the Escape series. 🙂

  Years had passed since Merrick Snyder’s untimely death, but Elle still wondered. They never found his body, and if anyone could survive a treacherous fall, he could. But, body or not, he must be dead.  Otherwise, he would have already resurfaced. At least, that’s what Elle kept telling herself.

 

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                 Theresa at her ninth great-grandmother, Susannah North Martin’s memorial.