About the Author

Bettylou Neill

New author and eight-year-old, Bettylou Neill lives in Portland, Oregon with her parents and enjoys reading, art, swimming, Drag Queens and Broadway Musicals. 

Her love of books began when she read her first book, “I Am A Bunny” by Richard Scarry at the age of three and it has only grown from there. She discovered her love of writing and telling stories as her imagination and dreams continued to grow along with her. Bettylou fell in love with mermaids after watching Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” and watching YouTube star, Traci Hines’ “Life Lessons of a Hipster Mermaid”.

In the Spring of 2018, she came out of her bedroom and announced to her parents she wanted to write a fourteen-chapter novel about mermaids and over the course of the following months, wrote: “The Legendary Mermaid Mysteries Volume 1: Emma Pearl”. Bettylou is looking forward to continuing her Legendary Mermaid Mystery series and is currently writing Volume 2!