About Tecia McLaughlin
Who is Tecia?
Tecia McLaughlin is an Alabama author, business owner, and public speaker. As a young girl, she loved to write poetry and music and traveled the southeast singing with her family. She joined the US Army when she was seventeen years old, and she spent her first-year learning German at the Defensive Language Institute in San Francisco, California. She spent three years as a Counter-Intelligence Agent stationed in Wurzburg, Germany. While stationed at the Third Infantry Military Intelligence Division she was given an opportunity to serve as a journalist for the Army’s “Frontline” Newspaper.
In 1989, she was crowned Miss Capitol City and competed for the title of Miss Alabama. In 1992, she was chosen to represent Troy University as an American Exchange Student studying International Marketing at The University of Karlsruhe in Germany.
In 1993, she earned her BA in Marketing.
She started her first business “Traveling Tunes” in 1998, and within one year she was featured on the children’s stage in Mobile, Alabama’s largest music festival “Bayfest”. She is currently the owner of a full-service beach wedding company along the Gulf Coast. Her first suspense thriller “Beseeched” was published in 2023, and her crime thriller “Our Secret Circle” was published in 2024.
Tecia’s focus is on strengthening women and helping them become the best version of themselves they can be!
A Little about About Me
The Early Years
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The Early Years
I grew up in Alabama and joined the US Army when I was 17 years old. I served three years as a German Linguist/Counter-Intelligence Agent and one year as a journalist/photographer for the Army's oldest newspaper "The Frontline". After my time in the Army, I received my BA in Marketing at Troy University in Alabama. I was 40 years old when I decided to write my first book.
My Family
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The Early Years
I met my husband while I was on my high school senior trip to the beach and we married a few years after I got out of the Army. He is still the love of my life. We have one daughter, SaVanna, who has been our pride and joy for 27 years, one Boston Terrier and a Pit Bull.
Join Me On My Journey
Join Me On My Journey
Join Me On My Journey
I have so many stories in me that are waiting to be put on paper. I'm a little disappointed in myself for waiting so long to begin a writing career. I made so many excuses. Many people have told me they started a book but never finished it. I'm so thankful my heart said "JUST SEND IT TO A PUBLISHER!" Had I not made that one choice, "Beseeched" would still be in my downloads doing nothing.
