Karol Ann Hoeffner moved from her home state of Texas to Hollywood in 1981 to pursue screen-writing. She has written original movies as well as novel adaptations for television mini-series and movies-of-the-week. Her first young adult novel entitled All You've Got which is based on her screenplay Rumble was released in Fall, 2005. Hoeffner taught at the University of Texas at Austin and conducts screen-writing workshops. She is married with two children, one dog and a cat and lives quite happily at the beach.