ABOUT ME

When I was twelve years old, I wanted to be an astronaut. Motion sickness (never put me in the back seat of a car, let alone on a roller coaster) killed that career before it got off the ground -- pun intended. So I turned to my next love, Broadway theater. There was only one problem: Broadway isn't interested in singers who can't sing and dancers who can't dance. Scratch that career path. So I went to art school and over the years have had a fairly successful career as a writer and designer in the consumer crafts industry, designing craft and needlework projects for kit manufacturers as well as magazine and book publishers.

Then I got the urge to write.

It all began several years ago when the characters in a dream I had took over my brain and refused to leave until I promised to tell their story. That story became my first romance manuscript.

While trying to convince the publishing world that I'd written The Great American Novel and was the next Nora Roberts, I discovered Romance Writers of America and learned, much to my chagrin, that I'd actually written The Great American Drivel . Nora needn't have worried. Undaunted, I worked to hone my craft, writing nearly a dozen novels over the next ten years. I had no choice. Once bitten by the writing bug, a writer can't not write (even if we do employ the occasional double-negative.)

My perseverance paid off. I was lucky enough to find an agent who loves my writing, she found an editor who feels likewise, and nearly ten years to the day that I first started writing, I joined the ranks of the published with Talk Gertie To Me. I never gave up on The Great American Drivel, though. Over the years, I’ve returned to that first manuscript several times, revising and revising and revising some more. What began as a not-ready-for-prime-time 50,000 word romance is now a 90,000 word romantic suspense -- with a publication date of June 2007.

Moral of the story? Never give up!

THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT ME
♥ Favorite color: black because it’s so slimming <G>
♥ Favorite drink: vanilla latte
♥ Favorite dessert: crème brulee
♥ Favorite city: Manhattan
♥ Favorite vacation spot: a cruise to anywhere
♥ Favorite activity (other than writing): going to Broadway shows
♥ Favorite romance author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
♥ Favorite romantic/suspense author: Sandra Brown
♥ Favorite mystery author: Janet Evanovich
♥ Favorite book: Envy by Sandra Brown
♥ Favorite modern movie: Shakespeare in Love
♥ Favorite old movie: Casablanca
♥ Favorite current TV show: House
♥ All-time Favorite TV show: M*A*S*H
♥ Favorite Broadway show: Wicked
♥ Favorite song: just about anything written by George and Ira Gershwin
♥ Favorite singer: Andrea Bocelli
♥ Favorite actor: Pierce Brosnan (that man can star as the hero in any of my books!)
♥ Favorite actress: Meryl Streep
♥ Pet peeves: reality TV, people who don’t answer their emails or return phone calls
♥ Person I’d most like to meet: Leonardo da Vinci

 

© 2004 Scott Winston