![]() ![]() ![]() A small and brand-new US publishing house I submitted to offered me my first traditional publishing deal and I was on my way! Except, I wasn’t quite earning enough to make a living… Then, having visited my dad at his home in the US, I wrote a novel based around an ice hockey team in Michigan. I spent every spare moment I had writing – there aren’t many moments when you work and have two children under five – and trying to connect with potential readers by building up my social media profile. Whilst working for the solicitors I self-published four novels in paperback via a website called Feed A Read and in ebook through Amazon Kindle. So, how did I go from dealing with the dead to keeping love alive writing romantic fiction? The short answer is, I took a leap of faith. More a case of dispatches instead of romantic matches! I was a Probate Practitioner, drafting wills and powers of attorney for the living and administering the estates of the deceased. But it’s actually been nine years since I took the plunge, gave up my day job and began writing full-time as a romantic novelist.Īnd my job was about as far removed from romance as you could get. ![]() I was always the girl with her head in a notepad from a very early age. ![]() It feels like I have been a writer for as long as I can remember and, in some ways, that’s true. National Emerging Writer Programme Overviewįrom Dealing with the Dead to Hatching Happy-Ever-Afters. ![]()
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