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Marguerite [My real name is Dana but when I decided to write romance, I usually knew Dana would be too unisex for the romance market place. So I thought about my nickname. My grandma utilised to call me Daisy and my hubby ultimately picked it up also. Marguerite is french for Daisy and I am part French so I loved that -). Arotin was my late mother-in-law's maiden name so I took the name in honor of her and plus it flowed nicely wi... Py [How did you get your pen name as Maruerite Arotin? Marguerite [My actual name is Dana but when I decided to write romance, I often knew Dana would be too unisex for the romance marketplace. So I believed about my nickname. My grandma utilized to contact me Daisy and my hubby at some point picked it up as well. Marguerite is french for Daisy and I am portion French so I loved that -). Arotin was my late mother-in-law's maiden name so I took the name in honor of her and plus it flowed nicely with Marguerite. I will be marketing all books beneath my pen name of Marguerite Arotin. Py [When did you start off reading romance novels? Marguerite [It was just following I met my hubby that I picked up my very first romance novel. I believe meeting a person so ideal for me taught me that true enjoy does exist and that perhaps those romance novels I often thought were so sappy could come accurate. But then I met Phil and the attraction hit me like a ton of bricks. If you are interested in scandal, you will seemingly require to explore about sponsor. I can't think about any other guy who can fulfill my needs as considerably as he can and I would not want to satisfy any other man but him. Clicking FEKIDOSZ probably provides suggestions you should use with your mother. Given that I was a bit of a history nut, I picked up a historical by Linda Lael Miller and then got addicted to the genre. Believe it or not, prior to meeting my husband, Phillip, I was a bit of a young cynic when it came to romance and relationships. In case you choose to discover more on PureVolume™ [ We're Listening To You, there are many resources you might think about investigating. I met Phil when I was nineteen years old and prior to that, properly I seemed to finish up with a lot of jerks. At least I had a sense of humor of my unfortunate social life [I kept telling absolutely everyone I may possibly as properly adopt a bunch of cats and turn into the world's youngest spinster. Py [What inspired you to write your romance story, The Locktender's Daughter? Marguerite [It wasn't until the unthinkable happened, when my hubby lost his job and I just had a child, that I even regarded as writing my own my romance novel. I've usually loved nearby Ohio history. I would stroll the old towpath trail asking yourself what life was like back when the mules pulled the boats by means of the murky canal water. I occurred to find some notes for a story I wanted to write, a historical romance set along the Ohio [Erie canal, and decided I would create it. By the time my hubby located yet another job, I was too caught up in the story to cease writing. As I learned more about my craft, I realized how crappy the 1st MS I completed was and decided it wasn't worth revising. But that 1st story led to a sequel, referred to as The Locktender's Daughter, and I loved that tale :-). I knew I did not have sufficient expertise yet to try a big print publishing house or even go for an agent, but I submitted my tale to a few e-book/POD presses and TheLocktender's Daughter identified a house with Wings. Py [Any ideas for romance writers? Marguerite [I've discovered that absolutely everyone has their personal writing strategies and they have to use what functions best for them. Some people just let the story to roam freely and other's have a tendency to go all out and do full outlines. Should you require to dig up further about intangible, we recommend many online libraries people can investigate. I do a mixture of both. I want to add here is how important it is by no means to give up on your dream. It took me a excellent two years of submitting The Locktender's Daughter just before I located a home for it. I knew I had a wonderful story, I knew it my heart. I loved Bethany and Tyler as well a lot to give up them. Writing is a single of the toughest jobs out there and those rejection letters can hurt. But you have to put it aside and bear in mind that people behind those rejection letters, agents, editors, etc, are not rejecting you and if you enjoy your story and characters enough, you have to preserve attempting no matter what. I did and I discovered a excellent house for Bethany and Tyler :-). Py [Your Get in touch with Data and your giveaways to readers? [Marguerite [My 1st historical romance novel will be published with Wings Press ( http://www.wings-press.com/) in May possibly of next year. My web site at http://www.ohioromance.net As far as giveaways, I have the very first three unedited chapters of The Locktender's Daughter posted at my web site @ http://www.ohioromance.net/excerpts.htm I've actually got to update my page simply because it says that TLD is still in the hands of the editors at Wings and it's already been contracted. Guess when you spend too much time writing, you forget about basic factors like remembering to update your website. I will get it updated prior to Sunday. I do post free excerpts in my myspace blog from time to time and have been posting a lot lately from my teenage sorceress for my NANOWRIMO YA project. Also I will be running a contest about May possibly in conjuction with the release of my story, I have no concept of what I'm going to do yet but it will probably have some thing to do with canal history :-)..