First of all I would like to thank Britni
for inviting me to be a guest on her blog.
It means such a lot to get support from other wonderful authors. It’s been very overwhelming and I am so
grateful.
My journey into writing started when I was
pretty young. I used to be a singer and
was always trying my hand at song lyrics.
My dad writes beautiful poetry and is quite artistic and so I think I
must get my creative side from him. I
used to love writing stories at school and when I was a teenager there was a
vague attempt at writing a book but goodness knows what happened to that! It was in the days before laptops so it was
all done in lined notebooks! Gosh I have
just made myself sound ancient!
My family and I are from Yorkshire in
England. It’s a beautiful county with
some amazing countryside but we had a very hectic life there. We started holidaying in Scotland quite a
number of years ago now and totally fell in love with the place. The scenery is so varied! You can literally be driving along a winding,
country road through flat, rocky outcrops and suddenly greeted with a majestic,
snow-capped mountain! It truly captured
our hearts. We spent so many holidays
there from that point and decided that, one day…in the far distant future…we
would relocate; perhaps when we were retired.
The more we thought about things the more
we realised that waiting was just not
an option. And anyway, what was the
point in waiting? We figured things out
and decided that we should just take the plunge! It took a few years but in May 2012 we
finally relocated!
The idea was that I would start a little
craft business and a blog to keep family and friends abreast of what was going
on in our new life. But I got the
writing bug! An idea for a story had
been bubbling somewhere in the back of my mind for a while and somehow making
the move north opened some kind of floodgate in my brain! I started to write and couldn’t stop! (In
fact I still can’t!)
I wrote for around six months solid. I turned writing into my full time job! Once the story was finished and my husband
and I had made a final research trip to make sure all the descriptions of
places and scenery really held up, it was time to bite the bullet and try to
get it published! This was the scariest
part. It was all new to me and I had no
clue what to expect. Receiving
rejections through for something I had put my heart and soul into was a bitter
pill to swallow. But it’s all par for the
course. And as a writer you have to hang
on to the fact that rejections are going to happen. Like it or not! You have to keep in mind that it’s not
personal.
In November I had news that knocked me off
my feet! A company in the USA called 5
Prince Publishing offered me a contract after requesting my full
manuscript! I was totally bowled
over. It was the most exciting feeling
ever. My hard work had paid off and here
was a company that wanted to give me a chance.
I have learned so much through working with my wonderful editor,
Bernadette. I am still learning and will
continue to do so in order to make my books the best that they can be. It’s been an amazing process.
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Bridge Over the Atlantic is a passion-filled, contemporary romance that tells the story of
Mallory, a twenty something, curvy, voluptuous girl with self-esteem issues. These issues have stopped her from meeting Mr
Right and she has just about given up.
That is until one day she take a coffee break out in the bustling
streets of Leeds city. Stiletto’s and
pavement cracks do not go well together and Mallory soon discovers this when
she lurches right into the arms of a passing stranger…but not just any passing
stranger…a gorgeous, masculine passing stranger!
I am often asked if the characters in the
book are based on real people. The
answer is no. I can honestly say that
Mallory has elements of me in her. But
to be totally honest, she has elements of almost every woman out there. I hope this makes her endearing and
realistic.
My second novel has been contracted and I
am due to begin edits with my wonderful editor at 5 Prince Publishing very
soon!
Bridge Over the Atlantic is available at:
Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble
Smashwords
iTunes
You can contact Lisa J Hobman at:
Thanks so much for having me as a guest Britni! Looking forward to you visiting my blog soon!
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