Reluctantly giving up my recent time-consuming but fascinating hobbies of house moving and divorce, I have finally settled down in North Wales, although my only claim to the area is a Welsh grandmother. In fact after several years puzzling over which part of me is Welsh, I've decided it's probably my writing arm.
News
I have had six romantic comedies published to date, the most recent being "Sweet Nothings" now out in paperback.
For years I submitted manuscripts to publishers and received rave rejections, saying they thought my writing was hysterically funny but they just couldn't see quite how to market it...... Then I had the great fortune to be taken on by literary agent, Judith Murdoch, who immediately and unerringly put her finger on the problem.
"Trisha, this romantic comedy hasn't got any romance in it at all" she informed me succinctly.
She was quite right: it hadn't. But it went on to become `Good Husband Material' ,and was followed by `The Urge To Jump' `Every Woman For Herself' `Singled Out', 'The Generous Gardener' and 'Sweet Nothings'.
'The other good news is that I have a Regency novel, Lord Rayven's Revenge, which is out now and - very exciting! - that the paperback of the Generous Gardener (under the title of SOWING SECRETS) is now published (February 2008) by Avon, Harper Collins.'
The greatest asset any writer can have? (Besides a wonderful agent!) Well, the answer has to be good friends, without a doubt.