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From The Top
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-Indie Wish List >> Guest post "Who or what inspired you to be a writer?"
Hi Indie Wish List, thanks for asking me to guest post today! I found romance novels while still in high school and immediately fell in love. Some of my favorites were Elizabeth Lowell and Linda Howard along with so many Harlequin Presents authors like Robyn Donald and India Grey. It was a time not unlike now. Print publishers were trying new things every day, expanding into different subgenres of romance. I ate it all up and knew I wanted to do this as a job. When I turned twenty-one, I rented a typewriter—yes, it was that long ago! I learned quickly that writing is hard and selling is harder. I got rejected for twenty-five years. (I still have the letters, over a hundred.) It was disheartening, but I loved what I was doing and even when I considered quitting, my family encouraged me to keep at it. In 2014, I made my first sale to Harlequin Presents and I’ve published forty books since then, nine of them with Tule Publishing, including the Blue Spruce Lodge series. My experience taught me that persistence is everything. In From The Top, Ilke, is an alpine skier. She rises to the top without help—a stubborn character flaw on her part. Then she fails spectacularly when she expected to sweep the podium, plus discovers she’s pregnant. She’s devastated and returns to Blue Spruce Lodge to tell the father, Nate. Nate has his own dream of a picket-fence family, which suffered a blow when his wife divorced him. He has a three-year-old son and that’s complicated enough without Ilke telling him she’s going to give him another baby—and then leave to continue her training. I hope you enjoy watching them figure out how to compromise and open up, then achieve greatness together.
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