Author Name:
Fiona Harper
I started writing fiction again in 2004 after finding a few scribbled scenes I had written more than a decade ago. I joined the RNA in 2005 and submitted my first polished and completed manuscript to their New Writers' Scheme. Much to my delight, they liked it and decided to send it on to Mills & Boon, and by November 2005 I had sold my first book.
Since then, things have been going rather well. In 2006 I received the RNA's Joan Hessayan New Writers' Award for my first book, Blind-Date Marriage, which also won a Cataromance Reveiwer's Choice award and was nominated in two categories, Best First Book and Best Traditional Romance for the presitgious RITA award in 2007.
I still live in London, but my other favourite places to be are the highlands of Scotland and the English countryside on a summer's afternoon. I love cooking, good food and anything cinnamon-flavoured. Of course, I still can't keep away from a good book, or a good movie—especially romances—but only if I'm stocked up with tissues, because I know I'll need them before the end, whether it’s happy or sad.