Connie Reeves Cooke, a native of Baytown, Texas, graduated from Robert E. Lee High School. She attended Dallas Fashion Merchandising College and worked at the Dallas Apparel Mart for Texas Fashions Magazine holding the position of fashion coordinator and Dallas and New York showroom model for two Dallas fashion design houses. She returned to Houston to work in the same capacity for Joe Frank, Inc.  

 

Connie and her late husband, Clayton, began playing tennis at Lakeside Country Club where she won a record nine doubles club championships and earned a state ranking with Clayton in Husband and Wife Doubles. She served on the board of the Lakeside Women’s Association, and served as president of the Lakeside Ladies Tennis Association.

 

In 1988, she began writing a society column for a statewide tennis newspaper before originating and writing the “Movers and Shapers” column for Houston Health & Fitness Magazine. That led to writing society columns for local and state magazines including Texas Woman, Philanthropy in Texas, Sense, Smart Set, and Features Editor of L’entrée. She also photographed the events for her columns, and did double duty as Fashion Editor and Stylist for Texas Woman and Smart Set. While writing for four magazines simultaneously, she also hosted her own society segment on two local television shows.

 

After attending Rice University to study novel and screenwriting, Connie’s love of writing led her to fulfill a lifelong dream of writing a novel, Fade to Dark, a suspense thriller which was published in 2006. Her second novel, Cayman Heat, another thriller set in the tropical paradise of Grand Cayman and the elite social stratosphere of Houston’s movers and shakers, was released in June 2012 and is in development for a television series. She is currently writing her third novel, Cayman Wind, the sequel to Cayman Heat.