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(Finalist)
A RECIPE AND ROMANCE COLLECTION BROUGHT
TO YOU BY AUSTRALIA'S FAVOURITE AUTHORS!
COMING SOON...
Mills and Boon Sweet, Aus/NZ, November 08
A NIGHT WITH THE SOCIETY PLAYBOY Modern Heat, UK, October 08 Sexy Sensation, Aus/NZ, December 08 Harlequin Presents, NA, TBA
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BOOK FOUR: THE BRIDES OF BELLA LUCIA MINISERIES
BOOK TWO: OFFICE GOSSIP TRILOGY
THE ST KILDA STOREYS TRILOGY
ARTICLES & APPEARANCES
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On Writing and Reading…
What do you love most about being a writer? I love that my working hours are flexible. I super love that my uniform is track pants, a sloppy sweater, ugh boots and no make-up. And I super duper love that my stationery addiction is tax deductible!
What do you like least about being a writer? I am a born procrastinator, without a willpower gene to speak of. So having a job where I don’t have a boss looming over me making sure I achieve daily targets while I work at home near a fridge, two televisions, and a car that can take me shopping can be, let’s say, taxing when my deadlines loom large.
Do you have a favourite locale or setting for your novels? What is it and why is it your favourite? Melbourne to be sure. It’s my home city. And it’s quite simply gorgeous. And there are so many nooks and crannies and alleys and mountains and beaches and historic suburbs in which I can land my heroes and heroines and simply watch how they react against not only one another but the intensity of their surrounds as well.
Which of the books you have written is your favourite? My favourite is always the one yet to be written. The next idea floating around in my head is so tempting, so full of possibility and so hard to ignore, especially when I’m meant to be concentrating wholeheartedly on the story that is due so very soon!
What are your five all-time favourite books (with authors)?
CATCH 22 by Joseph Heller
OLIVIA by Ian Falconer
What one specific piece of advice would you give a would-be writer trying to kick-start a career? Write what you love to write. If one day you sell a book (yay!) beware, your editor, and your readers, will want more of the same. So be very very careful of trying to write historical vampires if you don’t think you can keep it up for a good long time! Write what you love to write and you’ll be a happy camper!
Ally Blake was born in Millmerran a small town in the-middle-of-nowhere, Queensland. She graduated from St Peters Secondary College in Brisbane, duxing Theatre.
Whilst studying for her Bachelor of Arts with a double English major at the University of Queensland, Ally danced in front of up to 50,000 people per game as a cheerleader for the Brisbane Broncos football team. In her third year she became cheer captain and choreographed several routines. She cheered for the Gold Coast Rollers basketball team and on The Footy Show , a weekly television program all about rugby league. During this time she travelled to Santa Barbara, California to take part in a cheerleading camp and her squad won the much coveted Spirit Award at the culmination of the camp.
In early 2003 Ally sold her first book, THE WEDDING WISH a short romantic comedy, to Harlequin Mills and Boon. This book was nominated by industry magazine Romantic Times reviewers as Best First Series Romance of 2004.
Since becoming published, Ally has given talks at writers conferences, libraries and literary festivals around Australia regarding The Secrets of Newly Published Sisterhood, being Sassy in the City (how to sell a contemporary romance with an Australian bent) and The Changing Face of Contemporary Romance and Sexy vs Sweet: The Ultimate Showdown. Ally has written several articles giving tips to aspiring romance authors.
Ally has published sixteen fun, flirty, romantic novels in over thirty international markets with more than a million books sold worldwide. She was named Reviewers' Choice winner of Best Harlequin Romance Novel at CataRomance.com four times, and was nominated in 2007 for the prestigious HOLT MEDALLION for MEANT-TO-BE MOTHER and again by the Romantic Times reviewers for MILLIONAIRE TO THE RESCUE.
She now also writes sexy, sassy books for the Modern Heat line edited out of the United Kingdom.
Ally enjoyed designing her own website so much she has branched out to create others including the websites for bestselling romance authors Liz Fielding and Lucy Gordon and for the TV comedy game show Hot Dog With the Lot.
After marrying her husband in Las Vegas in 2000, Ally moved to Melbourne with their miniature fox terrier, Squiffy, their two black-headed pythons, Mary and Frederick, and white silky chickens, Laverne and Shirley. When not writing she enjoys eating M&Ms, watching The West Wing reruns, barracking at Collingwood football games and gooing and gahing at her beautiful newborn little girl.
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