I had a lot of stories floating around in my head when I was growing up, but the first time I remember writing one of them down was in the third grade. I wrote a play about Santa Claus, and my teacher was good-humored and supportive enough to let me hold auditions and rehearsals during recess, and then my classmates and I performed the play for the rest of the class.
Apparently third grade was a magical year for me, because it was also the year that I watched the movie Romancing the Stone for the first time. The heroine of the story is a romance novelist, and after finishing the movie, I enthusiastically announced to my mom that I was going to grow up to be a romance writer, too. By the time I got to college, I’d long since forgotten my dream of becoming a writer, and I majored in health and zoology (I wanted to be a marine biologist or a spy). A few years after graduation, my husband registered me for an online writing class for my twenty-fourth birthday. He’d debated between the writing class and Japanese cooking lessons, but on a whim went with the writing class. Fate, I tell you! It was in that class that I started writing what would eventually become HUSH, HUSH.
What an awesome birthday gift! I love that story.
Hey, Stephanie!
I know, pretty cool, right? My husband rocks!
So glad he picked the writing class! What a wonderful present.
Fate it is! I hope he expects an award when ur book does AMAZING! LOL
That’s a great story about the writing class! I am in love with your book cover!
Vania: It’s gone to his head – he DOES think he deserves an award! Maybe I’ll give him a poster of Patch for his office, hahaha ;)
Amanda: I agree! The cover is spectacular! I feel pretty darn lucky.
Hi, Sarah!
I’m a terrible cook, so it’s probably a good thing he didn’t go with the Japanese cooking lessons.
Even guys can fawn over Patch! Good idea! LOL
The cover for hush hush looks so cool. I can’t wait for it to come out!
if it wasn’t for the writing classes we would never get hush,hush, tell your husband i said thank you!
like tiffany mentioned above, the cover looks amazzzing. its unique and totally drool worthy just like patch (i already know i’m gonna love him because i have a thing for bad boys) so yeah, the cover relates to the book, somthing i don’t see often.
can’t wat till hush hush. waiting, waiting, waiting…..
Tiffany: I LOVE the cover! It’s so perfect for the book!
Libby: Haha, I’ll let my hubby know. And, yes. Patch is very bad ;)
I think the first time I saw your book cover I thought it was some sort of Asian character/letter so it almost works with Japanese cooking, too, in a tiny way ;)
And hey, you can make someone a marine biologist spy…like CSI: Miami with a twist.
Glad you did the writing class, though :D