Author: R.J. Botelho
Bio: R. J. lives way Downeast in Maine on the coast where it is only a couple of miles across the bay to Canada. The surrounding area is beautiful and bountiful and pretty much the way nature intended it to be. He enjoys his small horse farm affectionately named Camelot, which he shares with his wife, Elizabeth, three Quarter horses, Max, Blaze and Tristram, one Arabian horse, Angel and a donkey named Tumbleweed. That’s not it by far, they have a wingnut of a little dog named Wendell that looks like a Cairn Terrier, but is actually a Shih Tzu/ minipinser mix, a longhaired Daschund Terrier mix named Scooter Pie that many people adore, even though they make fun of her by saying she looks like an experiment gone wrong. Then there is the ever-faithful Shepard, Rebel and a Beagle Terrier mix named Boo, who looks like a miniature Sheep Dog. The newest addition is a West Highland Terrier named Wee Tilly. All in all the Camelot family is quite a sight to behold and they try to never take for granted their wonderful simple lifestyle. R.J. is a chef and cooks at the Perry Elementary School in Perry, Maine where he tries his hardest to get good nutrition into and across to the kids in his school. The kids in the school are a never ending source of enjoyment and a well of great stories that he uses to launch his ideas for stories. You will see in the books that there are little jokes and stories that Garth or Liz tell about their friends and classmates. Most of them have come directly from kids at the school so they feel they have a part in the input for the Garth Series. As it is with many things in life, you must leave yourself open to ideas and new experiences to become a complete well-rounded person. That philosophy holds true in many aspects of life, it is no less with the author and it should be no less with the reader.