: About Me

From a very young age I knew that I wanted to be a writer. My earliest memories are of walking around at a family party (we have a rather big family) with a tape recorder and microphone asking people rather nosy (now I think about it) questions about their lives.

In my very early teens I put together a novel (which I still have in the original manually typed format) about a teenage girl falling in love. I don't think I need to say that it was never, and will never be, published, but the practice that writing that 110,000-word novel gave me is priceless. I can still remember typing "The End" at the bottom of the last page and crying my eyes out, I was 14!

My late teens found me travelling around Europe, working as a teaching assistant in an all-boys boarding school before returning to England where I got a very creative' job as a receptionist in a solicitor's office. I didn't stay there long though, and soon moved into the Health industry (where I have been pretty much ever since).

Now in my thirties I find that I am not wholly satisfied with my lot, but I am doing everything I can to change it. I am still in the health industry, though now I work on the publishing side of things as a small cog in a very big non-fiction clock.

While my real life (the part of it that earns me money at least) isn't very creative, I spend much of the little free time I have writing short stories and though, in recent years, my writing has been restricted mostly to the world of fan-fiction (which doesn't get anywhere near the respect it deserves) I do have a few original stories under my belt and one day I know I will send them somewhere.

I am a student of life, but at present (and for the foreseeable future) I am also a student of English Literature with the Open University. My BA (hons) is expected to take six years (as a part time course) and, with three and a half years under my belt and my fourth and fifth (yes together) already underway, I am quite settled on my destined path, and set to graduate in June 2010.

Arts & Humanities > Literature (Other) Best romance novels

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The Best Romance Novels I picked up my first romance novel when I was 11 years old some may say that was a bit young to be reading about passion, but I was a rather introverted and mature 11 year old curious about too many things, and very independent. The novel was "Too Much Too Soon" by Jacqueline Briskin, and being honest I wouldn't have even thought about it were it not for the fact that searching my bookcase last week I uncovered it under a pile of college texts about Napoleon. I can actually remember going to the library with a note from my mother giving me permission to be loaned th...

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