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For more details check out their website here. By Sanjana Cunniah. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. John Boon would eventually take over as managing director in When commercial libraries began to decline in the late s, the company knew it had to ensure their books remained easily accessible and found alternative places to sell their books, such as newsagents, supermarkets and through mail order.
Reference: MB Date: Extent: files. It covers the period , with the bulk of the records covering The Newry woman, who is in her early 50s, only began writing seriously around five years ago and still works full-time in healthcare management, while putting pen to paper at weekends.
There's a lot of people send them manuscripts. I'm very lucky in that mine got pulled from the pile. Waltzing with the Earl, which was published in , was a huge success and in , Catherine became the first woman from Ireland to win a RITA - the highest accolade in the romantic fiction industry - for her debut novel.
Catherine has been married to Andrew, a lawyer, for almost 29 years and says it was her husband who insisted that she send off the manuscript for Waltzing with the Earl. He's always been really supportive. The books now, reflect society now, even historical romance novels," she says.
Catherine agrees that there is still a lot of 'book snobbery' surrounding romantic fiction. Lynne 63 published her debut novel, Bittersweet Passion, in and has since gone on to write more than novels and sell 45 million books. My eldest child was a toddler and I started writing to amuse myself.
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