Simone Brightstein was born in Birmingham in 1936 and emigrated to Ottawa, Canada at the age of eleven. Following her education she began working at a local radio station as a copy writer and then to Toronto as Creative Director for Kert Advertising. Simone seperated from her husband of 34 years in 2000 and moved back to England settling in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire where she now lives. She has two children and three grandchildren and divides her time between her home of Bradford on Avon and Canada to be with her family.Her first book, 'Hosts of Ghosts' co authored with Margaret Dobson, was a study of other-worldly first person experiences in West Wiltshire. Simone is now working on Deities, Inc. the sequel to Oshun's Gold.