Catching up with myself...by Carola Dunn
Catching up with myself... by Carola Dunn , author of the Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries I started writing 34 years ago. Not that I ever had a burning desire to produce a book, but it seemed like a good excuse to postpone looking for a "proper" job (as opposed to my many part-time and temp work experiences). I had been rereading Georgette Heyer's Regencies. and wishing for some new ones equally good. The ones I found were pretty badly written—yet they'd been published. Surely, I thought, I can do at least as well. So I sat down (at the kitchen table) and wrote my first Regency romance, longhand, on ruled paper. The first surprise was that I finished it. The second, that an editor wanted to buy it. Toblethorpe Manor has the requisite English setting and youthful heroine (in her mid 20s in this case). They say write what you know. Well, I was born and grew up in England, and way back then it wasn't so long since I was in my ...