As with most things, PJ Nunn's career started out as something else entirely.

With a Masters degree in psychology, she left a job teaching at multiple campuses of the Dallas County Community College District in the mid-1990's to become a freelance writer, but found that a few favors she was doing for friends--writing press releases and setting up book signings--was better suited to her talents and her drives. 

In 1998, she founded BreakThrough Promotions, now a national public relations firm helping authors, mostly of mystery novels, publicize themselves and their work. 

Even in such a short period of time, BreakThrough Promotions has become a respected firm, representing many distinguished authors, like Rhys Bowen, Elaine Viets and Denise Hamilton. The client list sometimes reaches 70 at a time, and BTP's staff has been as large as 15 associates. 

Nunn says she is most proud of the fact that BTP has grown each year it has been in business, and her fondness for authors means her client list has become something more than that--in a way, PJ Nunn is still helping her friends. 

PJ Nunn is the founder and president of BreakThrough Promotions.  She lives with her husband and some of their five children near Dallas, TX.