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Kate Hewitt's Biography
Kate
Hewitt discovered her first Mills & Boon romance on a trip to England
when she was thirteen, and she’s continued to read them ever since.
She wrote her first story at the age of five, simply because her older brother
had written one and she thought she could do it too. That story was one sentence
long—fortunately, they have become a bit more detailed as she’s
grown older.
Although she was raised in Pennsylvania, she spent summers and holidays at
her family’s cottage in rural Ontario, Canada picking raspberries, making
maple syrup, and pretending to be a pioneer. Now her children are enjoying
roaming the same wilderness, with a few additional modern comforts (like TV!).
She studied drama in college and shortly after graduation moved to New York
City to pursue a career in theatre. This was derailed by something far better—meeting
the man of her dreams who happened also to be her older brother’s childhood
friend.
Ten days after their wedding they moved to England, where Kate worked a variety
of different jobs—drama teacher, editorial assistant, church youth worker,
secretary, and finally mother.
When her oldest daughter was one year old, she
sold her first short story to a British magazine, ‘The People’s
Friend’. Since then
she has written many stories and serials as well as novels. In 2007 she received ‘The
Call’ from Mills & Boon for her first Harlequin Presents novel, The
Italian’s Chosen Wife, and still has to shake her head in disbelief and
wonder that it really happened… and she’s really writing for Mills & Boon!
She loves writing stories that celebrate the healing and redemptive power of
love, and there’s no better way of doing it than through the romance
genre.
Besides writing, she enjoys reading, traveling, and learning to knit—it’s
an ongoing process and she’s made a lot of scarves.
After living in England for six years, she now resides in Connecticut with
her husband, an Anglican minister, her three young children, and the possibility
of one day getting a dog.
Kate loves to hear from readers—visit her website www.kate-hewitt.com or you can contact her at katehewitt@kate-hewitt.com. |
