Welcome our friend, Rachel Brimble, to the Roses today with her latest release, SAVED BY THE FIREFIGHTER!
I have
been writing romance since 2005, steadily chipping away and learning my craft
over the last eleven years. Each book I’ve had published and, each editor I’ve
worked with, has taught me something to take forward into the next project. I
have had no formal education or tuition for my writing, but have enrolled in
many online courses and made lots of invaluable friends who have helped me on
my journey.
All the
rejections (there have been MANY!), disappointments, frustrations and tears
were all made worthwhile during 2012 when my dream of writing for Harlequin
came true. I wrote Finding Justice from the heart and of course, hoped and prayed
an editor would love it as much as I did. However, nobody could have prepared
me for the shock of receiving an email from my agent saying Harlequin loved the
book but would I consider some minor revisions?
Would
I?? Hot damn, yes! I set to work and made the relevant changes that I immediately
understood made the book stronger. These done, I sent them back and three weeks
later, I was offered a contract. Woohoo!
By the
time I sent Finding Justice out into the big, wide world, the setting of
Templeton Cove had become very dear to me and I soon realized I wasn’t ready to
let this small fictional UK seaside town belong to just one book. Would
Harlequin consider more books set in the same town? There was only one way to
find out. I feverishly wrote a sequel and A Man Like Him was accepted by my Harlequin
editor six months later.
The cast
of characters continues to grow and with each book I write in the series, more
and more potential stories evolve from the secondary characters that leap into
my imagination. At the end of last year, Harlequin offered me a my second
three-book contract, which means Templeton Cove continues to flourish and
yesterday I started writing book 8.
I often
get asked what the secret is to breaking into Harlequin – my answer? The only
aspect I am one hundred percent sure of is the Harlequin brand thrives on
emotion, emotion and more emotion! Make sure the reader can feel what’s going
on inside every character on every page and I’m pretty confident you’ll hook an
editor. Good luck!
Rachel’s
latest release is Templeton Cove #6, SAVED BY THE FIREFIGHTER (all books can be
read stand-alone) – here is the blurb and buy links:
How can she forgive him
for what he didn't do?
Photographer Izzy Cooper
feels as frozen as her pictures. Trent Palmer might be the hottest firefighter
in Templeton Cove, but she can never face him again. Not after he failed to
save her brother. But when they're forced together by a calendar shoot, the
sparks between them are undeniable.
Izzy
knows it's not fair to blame Trent for the tragedy, but opening herself up to
loss again isn't something she's prepared to do, no matter how determined Trent
is to show her that pain is part of life and that love—their love—can make any
suffering bearable.
Buy Links:
Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01JFHYGQW
Amazon US: https://amzn.com/B01FQX473Q
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/saved-by-the-firefighter-rachel-brimble/1123750035?ean=9781488006906
Bio:
Rachel lives with her husband and two teenage daughters
in a small town near Bath in the UK. After having several novels published by
small US presses, she secured agent representation in 2011. Since 2013, she has
had six books published by Harlequin Superromance (Templeton Cove Stories) and
recently signed a contract for two more. She also has four Victorian romances
with eKensington/Lyrical Press.
She also recently signed with a UK agent so is
represented both sides of the Atlantic.
Rachel is a member of the Romantic Novelists
Association and Romance Writers of America, and was selected to mentor the
Superromance finalist of So You Think You Can Write 2014 contest. When she
isn’t writing, you’ll find Rachel with her head in a book or walking the
beautiful English countryside with her family. Her dream place to live is
Bourton-on-the-Water in South West England.
She likes nothing more than connecting and
chatting with her readers and fellow romance writers. Rachel would love to hear
from you!
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