Angela Raines is the pen name for Doris McCraw. Doris loves telling the stories of the women and men who braved new worlds, new places, and new ideas while searching for their place in the world. She loves when the story’s characters maneuver their way through the action and setbacks that make the Happy Ever After, even if is it implied, a rewarding experience.
Doris/Angela, is an author, historian, performer, speaker, and poet. She moved from the historically rich region of West Central Illinois to the equally history-rich Colorado. Many of her works focus on the history that has surrounded her all her life. An avid reader Doris also loves to spend time in history archives, either online, in history centers, or local libraries, looking for small, unknown pieces of history. Usually, these found gems are in her books, short stories, blogs, and non-fiction papers are written for publications. She also has a continuing project of documenting the women doctors who lived, studied and worked in Colorado prior to 1900.
Doris writes in both the Medieval and Western Romance, along with the Western genre. All have extraordinary histories that just beg to be told. Sometimes Doris thinks the ‘muse’ may be asking too much, but then smiles and digs right in. The results? Stay tuned after reading the stories she currently has available.
You can also find her non-fiction writing, on Colorado subjects, on Amazon in the Pikes Peak Library District’s books:
Disasters of the Pikes Peak Region (Regional History Series),
Film and Photography on the Front Range (Regional History Series)
Doris is a member of the American League of Pen Women, Women Writing the West Western Writers of America, and Western Fictioneers.