![]() Penguin were very interested and I wrote the rest of the novel reasonably quickly (within a few months, as far as I can remember). I wrote a synopsis and three chapters of a chick-lit novel and sent it to a few publishers. Publishers were actively acquiring it and I was of the right age group to be writing it. When I began writing my first novel, chick-lit was on the rise. I suppose I knew writing a novel would be hard and something in me railed against even starting! I’m not entirely sure how I knew that to be true, because I can’t remember writing dialogue before that. I had some pretty amazing whiny excuses, including, “Writing dialogue is just too hard”. I have no idea why, but I tried not to write a novel for some time. I began writing novels, however, a year or two after finishing uni. English was my favourite subject at school and I studied Journalism at uni. Twitter: DID YOU GET STARTED AS A WRITER? Now a hybrid author, her latest New Adult work, Beneath Beautiful, was self-published in late 2014. Her publishers include St Martin’s Press, Walker Books, HarperCollins, Kensington Books, Allen & Unwin and Harlequin Mills & Boon. Since then she has written Middle Grade fiction (the Living Blond trilogy) and Young Adult fiction ( Shooting Stars and Being Hartley) right up to New Adult fiction ( The Heiresses). ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first novel, (contemporary women’s fiction) was published in 2000 by Random House. Allison Rushby is a Brisbane-based author of a whole lot of books. ![]()
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