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Once upon a time . . .
Born and raised, in Oregon, I caught the journalism bug in high school and went to college on a journalism scholarship. When a big-city newspaper editor told me he preferred to hire well-rounded reporters with working experience on a newspaper and degrees in something other than journalism, I promptly switched schools and majors and ended with a BA in English, a minor in Spanish, and a fondness for spending 60-hour work weeks in a newspaper office (a habit I have thankfully overcome.)
After college, I logged a few years as a newspaper reporter and almost eight years as the publications coordinator for a medical center, plus a few career detours in between as a bartender at a Montana ski resort, a technical writer for a software company, and an English teacher in Venezuela.
With every job I've ever held, I've always written. Always. Don't laugh, even as a bartender I worked as a stringer for my local paper covering events at the ski resort.
But it wasn't until the summer of 2002 that I decided to try my hand at fiction. After a few tries, I sold a novel to Silhouette Bombshell in May 2005. I signed the contracts, collected my advance, and wrote two follow up Bombshells that hadn’t yet made it to contract when my editor called in August 2006 to tell me the line was being cancelled exactly one month prior to my scheduled debut.
The experience set me back a notch, and left me at a crossroads in my career: should I follow my editor's suggestion and target a different Harlequin/Silhouette line, or abandon the category romance route and take a stab at a single-title project?
A Tricky Undertaking became my answer to that question. I loved my first mainstream effort, and I’m eagerly awaiting word from my agent about what's next for this quirky little mystery series.
Stay tuned, and thanks for reading!
Tawna
Born and raised, in Oregon, I caught the journalism bug in high school and went to college on a journalism scholarship. When a big-city newspaper editor told me he preferred to hire well-rounded reporters with working experience on a newspaper and degrees in something other than journalism, I promptly switched schools and majors and ended with a BA in English, a minor in Spanish, and a fondness for spending 60-hour work weeks in a newspaper office (a habit I have thankfully overcome.)
After college, I logged a few years as a newspaper reporter and almost eight years as the publications coordinator for a medical center, plus a few career detours in between as a bartender at a Montana ski resort, a technical writer for a software company, and an English teacher in Venezuela.
With every job I've ever held, I've always written. Always. Don't laugh, even as a bartender I worked as a stringer for my local paper covering events at the ski resort.
But it wasn't until the summer of 2002 that I decided to try my hand at fiction. After a few tries, I sold a novel to Silhouette Bombshell in May 2005. I signed the contracts, collected my advance, and wrote two follow up Bombshells that hadn’t yet made it to contract when my editor called in August 2006 to tell me the line was being cancelled exactly one month prior to my scheduled debut.
The experience set me back a notch, and left me at a crossroads in my career: should I follow my editor's suggestion and target a different Harlequin/Silhouette line, or abandon the category romance route and take a stab at a single-title project?
A Tricky Undertaking became my answer to that question. I loved my first mainstream effort, and I’m eagerly awaiting word from my agent about what's next for this quirky little mystery series.
Stay tuned, and thanks for reading!
Tawna
The Basics
My husband and I are avid globe-trotters who love shouldering our packs and visiting any foreign locale that offers a glimpse at another culture.
I love biking, hiking, kayaking, sailing, snorkeling, reading, and spending time with my best pal (who, fortunately, happens to be the guy I've been married to for 10 years).
My husband and I are avid globe-trotters who love shouldering our packs and visiting any foreign locale that offers a glimpse at another culture.
I love biking, hiking, kayaking, sailing, snorkeling, reading, and spending time with my best pal (who, fortunately, happens to be the guy I've been married to for 10 years).
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