Yvonne Robertson

I grew up in a family of eight, Our parents, one sister and four brothers, I am number five. I used to love sitting around the table on a Sunday eating dinner and we often played games. We were a noisy lot back then but my memories are all good.

My best friend, Jane and I were inseparable and went everywhere together. We even used to buy the same clothes and dress alike. Although I live in the US and she is still in Scotland, we are still friends almost fifty years later. I try to see her when we go back to Scotland on vacation.

I published a poem when I was eight about a spaceman and wrote tons of short stories. Notebooks and pens were my favorite thing. Later on, when I was about fifteen my high school English teacher told me I had talent and I also won a competition in college for a short story I had written. Ir was many years though before I believed it enough myself to write my first book.

My parents, Jean and Elliot, who encouraged me to write my stories and poems. My single biggest regret is that they didn't see me become a published author. I also loved Enid Blyton, I devoured her Malory Towers books when I was very young and my love of all things literary grew from there.

Love Story by Erich Segal has to be up there although it is also tragic and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I don't find it difficult to write about love at all and I am a huge romantic at heart.

I liked writing all of them and developing all of the characters but the last one brought it all together and I finished it with a shocker, as always. Brynna was a firecracker so her story was fun to write.

Not a single person but many. She is strong, independent and feisty and I know a lot of women like that who have coped on their own, my sister, Janell, for one and several of my friends who have gone through heartbreak and bounced back stronger than ever.

I like at least an HEA at the end of my books but I always leave a twist in the tale or a teaser of more to come. I try to bring my characters to life as much as possible and sometimes I do base them loosely on a person I know.

Angel is the last (For now) in the series and has her own love story to tell just like her sisters Lauren and Madison. Through each of the books, we follow the sisters as they try to unravel the secrets surrounding their birth and which one of them was actually born to another woman. It all comes together in this one and we find out all of the answers......probably not the one everyone expected though!

I actually wrote Madison first even although it is the second book so I have a soft spot for her and her love interest Mitch. Even although it was intended to be a stand-alone but the story got larger and larger and I knew I had to break it up into three different books to tell each sister's story.

He is extremely supportive and encouraged me when I wanted to write full time. He isn't much of a fiction reader but he plods through to give me his opinions. He also boosts my ego me when things are getting tough.

I love classic literature and have Jane Austin, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, etc but I love contemporary novels too. I read and write mainly contemporary romance and paranormal romance but my book Picture Perfect also had a little psych thriller in it. I also read a lot of thrillers and may try that next.

None really unless you count getting carried away and having to reign myself in. I loved every one of my characters in those books and have started writing another with one of the secondary characters that would have its own story but still be connected to the others. I loosely based the small town in these books on the village where my sons attended primary school. It's called Glamis (Pronounced Glams) and was the ancestral home of the late Queen Mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Our garden backed onto the castle grounds and they would ride their bikes up and down the castle driveway. Looking back they had an idyllic place to grow up.

Someone told me recently they wished they could get inside my head and another said I couldn't write them fast enough for her. I love getting feedback and do my best to acknowledge every one of my readers because without them.....I wouldn't be a writer.

It has been awesome! I love the interaction with other writers and readers and especially love the magic tool and the great promotional materials I can create from it.