About Me!
I have a history with books - from the toddler years, where, as family lore tells it, I had a penchant for climbing bookshelves, pulling out books...and ripping out the pages (I still claim it was someone who looked like me)! Then came the years where I spent all my pocket money on books until I came up with a cunning plan to get my hands on even more and joined a library. Which leads neatly to the years when I lived abroad and 'ran' a library...loaning out my parents' books. Sure, there were some uncomfortable questions about my strict overdues fees policy when it was discovered I was buying more books than my pocket money stretched to. A decade later I found the perfect job for my reading addiction and got to enjoy thirteen years working in an actual real-life library!
All this time my reading addiction fed my writing addiction. Journals, poems, long letters to my best friend who I was going to see the very next day at school, short stories and (please tell me someone else has done this too) 'new and improved' episodes of popular television shows where the protagonists actually got together! As I got older I wrote training manuals for work along with advertising and promotional material, and I shouldn't forget all those love letters to my boyfriend now husband.
For the last few years I've been writing romantic suspense and contemporary romance, more seriously. The journey is fantastic, illuminating, joyous, testing and ongoing.
I write in my garret, the technical term I like to use for the teeny tiny room at the top of our stairs. I write with my back to the window to avoid distraction and when I can't write because I need a distraction, I plod downstairs to write at my dining-room table. There I have a wonderful view of all the jobs I haven't got around to doing in the garden.
I write because it makes me happy and brings balance to my life. I like people. I like storytelling. And in a world where it's far too easy to settle back, opt out and be cynical, I like that reading romance redresses the balance a little. And because everyone sometimes struggles when the world turns serious I like feeling my stories might offer some entertainment and escape.
All this time my reading addiction fed my writing addiction. Journals, poems, long letters to my best friend who I was going to see the very next day at school, short stories and (please tell me someone else has done this too) 'new and improved' episodes of popular television shows where the protagonists actually got together! As I got older I wrote training manuals for work along with advertising and promotional material, and I shouldn't forget all those love letters to my boyfriend now husband.
For the last few years I've been writing romantic suspense and contemporary romance, more seriously. The journey is fantastic, illuminating, joyous, testing and ongoing.
I write in my garret, the technical term I like to use for the teeny tiny room at the top of our stairs. I write with my back to the window to avoid distraction and when I can't write because I need a distraction, I plod downstairs to write at my dining-room table. There I have a wonderful view of all the jobs I haven't got around to doing in the garden.
I write because it makes me happy and brings balance to my life. I like people. I like storytelling. And in a world where it's far too easy to settle back, opt out and be cynical, I like that reading romance redresses the balance a little. And because everyone sometimes struggles when the world turns serious I like feeling my stories might offer some entertainment and escape.
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