AUTHORS BLOG TOUR - A NEW APPROACH
Téa Cooper tagged me in this new blog tour for authors - something a little different and fun. This tour is about introducing the writer who tagged you, answering a few questions about yourself and your writing, and tagging more authors to keep the train going. Here's Téa's blog . Let's take a look at what makes Téa tick.
Téa Cooper
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Téa always knew one day she would write a novel. It probably started with a rather risqué story in the back of an exercise book at boarding school featuring the long suffering school gardener - not really the stuff romantic heroes were made of but it was before she knew any better.
Life and few heroes of her own showed her the error of her ways and with a baby under one arm, a husband and a half built house she entered a Mills and Boon competition. To her absolute earth shattering amazement she won second place – the prize was a bottle of perfume! Next time she determined she would do better.
Writing remained the stuff of fantasy. Her family, a herd of alpacas, a protea farm and teaching intervened until one day she decided it was time to do or die. No more procrastination. The characters and plots that had lived in her head for so long were clamoring to escape.
In August 2011 she joined Romance Writers Australia, entered the Harlequin Mills & Boon New Voices competition and to her horror wasn't discovered. Not even a bottle of perfume this time but in reality she had won. Procrastination was conquered and determination set in. It was time to get serious.
Since then she has published several contemporary and historical romance novels and is currently working on a series entitled The Adventures of Miss Abygail Wynter and an Australian regency novella.
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In the gritty underbelly of 1920s Sydney, a fresh-faced country girl is about to arrive in the big, dark city – and risk everything in the pursuit of her dreams.
Q&A SESSION TIME - ALL ABOUT ME!
1) If you were beginning your writing career today, what would you do differently?
Read more craft books about technique and plotting rather than learn all my lessons the hard way!
2) What’s the one thing about you that might surprise readers?
I used to work at a radio station and did voice overs for ads from time to time.
3) Tell us a little about your main character in your latest book.
All That Glitters is a short story appearing in a Christmas anthology, A Season To Remember, which is out late November. Molly Morgan is a surgical nurse - practical and earthy. She's not at all like her half-sister, Aimee, or her step-mother Maria. Both are Gold Coast glamazons of the highest order.
Molly is roped in to help when her sister snags an elderly husband with more money than Croeseus. While Molly loves her disfunctional family she has a moral issue about the wedding. Is it love? Or has Aimee turned into a gold digger?
Of course there's a hunky hero in Connor Rathmore to help her discover the truth.
4) What are some of your favourites?
Colour - Red
Food - anything Italian or Middle Eastern
Place - the coast of anywhere
Shameless self promotion...
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A Season To Remember, Christmas anthology, releases late November 2014 and its free!
TAGGING THE NEXT PARTICIPANTS FOR THIS BLOG TOUR
Here are the people I am tagging. Please upload your post within a month if you'd like to participate and tag others to join in.
G.W. Gibson Elizabeth Ellen Carter Nikki Dee Houston Susanne Bellamy
