Rogayle Franklin

Internationally published journalist, Rogayle Franklin now lives in the Beaumont area of Southeast, Texas. As an author and versatile freelance business and travel writer, her writing has introduced readers to major cities around the world--London Amsterdam, Paris, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Honolulu--including cities in America, Mexico and Central America

When she was Business Editor of the Beaumont Enterprise, the National Federation of Press Women chose a business news story Rogayle wrote the best story of the year. The same year, the Texas Press Women awarded her a first place in writing advertising copy. And during her career with the Beaumont newspaper, she was one of six columnists in Texas who reviewed new automobiles.

For more than four years Rogayle was a contributing editor for Texas usiness Magazine. Since that time her feature articles have appeared in more than 35 national magazines including Travel Holiday, National Parks, Southern Living, Coastal Living, Continental's Inflight Magazine, Victorian Homes, Dolls and AAA Magazines.

McLennan House published Rogayle's first novel, a suspense thriller, Leopard's Prey, which later became part of the European Readers Mystery Club Collection. The author brought her writing home with Beaumont: the Right Side of Texas and she continues to celebrate the Lone Star State as a contributor to guidebooks for Trailer Life Campgrounds, Michelin Guidebooks and the 2008 GPP TravelDay Trips From Houston.