![]() ![]() She has a Bachelor of Journalism from Ryerson University in Toronto. She now challenges anyone who believes romance is “easy to write” to write their own book and try to get published in one year’s time. In that time, she also made the finals in the Toronto Romance Writers’ Golden Opportunity Contest in 2009 and won in the Contemporary Series Category in 2010. ![]() It took three years of grueling work before she finally sold her third book, Fighting for Her Love (retitled Her Son’s Hero for publication), to Harlequin Superromance. She’d never read what she used to call a “real” romance book until she started working at Harlequin Enterprises, the world’s largest publisher of women’s fiction, as a proofreader.Īfter reading her first few romance novels, she thought, “If they can do it, so can I!” After all, she believed, like so many people still do, that romance was “based on a formula,” that “anyone could write a romance” and that “They’ll publish anything!”Īfter the first year of writing and attending workshops, she couldn’t believe how naïve she’d been. Vicki Essex (pseudonym) is a romance writer in Toronto, Canada. ![]()
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