About Us

Tess Thompson is a pen name for two sisters who live over 1400 miles apart. Judi lives in Texas and Charlene lives in Colorado. Charlene Tess and Judi Thompson combined their two last names into a pseudonym when they began writing novels as a team in 2002. Together they have written and published twelve Tess Thompson novels and are working on the next one. All their novels are available at this link on Amazon.com.

In 2019, they decided to also write romantic comedies under the pen name, Annie Curtis. The Texas Plains Series includes Christmas Candee, July's Heart, and Darby's Magic. You will find them here.

Judi Thompson has been writing since her early teens. In school, when the teacher assigned a term paper or report, the other students would groan, but Judi would rush home to begin her creation. She was rewarded for her efforts when her poetry was published in the high school magazine when she was a junior. “I’ve always carried stories around in my head imagining scenes and scenarios. I thought I was crazy until I read that one of my favorite authors did the same thing.”

Judi lives with her husband Roger in Houston, Texas. She is a retired supervisor for special education at a local school district.

Judi's Western Historical Novel, Yesterday's Promises, is available at this link. www.amazon.com/author/judithompson

Charlene Tess is a writing teacher and a novelist. Since early childhood, she has filled numerous spiral notebooks with her imaginings. In addition to the novels published with her sister. You will find her novels at this link. www.amazon.com/author/charlenetess. Simple Steps to Sentence Sense, her nonfiction series of grammar workbooks, is available in her store on TeachersPayTeachers.com.

Charlene lives in the greater Denver area with her husband Jerry. She is a retired English and creative writing teacher with 35+ years of experience.

You can contact us at novelsbytessthompson@gmail.com. We would love to hear from you.

JUDI & CHARLENE