Back to the Good Fortune Diner by Vicki Essex

She's armed with a degree, but not working in her desired position. Tiffany Cheung travels a path I think a lot of 20/30 something year olds can relate to these days. This story has both a great interracial couple and realistic cultural elements that highlight their differences. I don't read many Harlequin romances and I tip-toe around interracial romances because I don't enjoy being slapped in the face by racial stereotypes during my free time. Her advice to anyone who wants to be a writer: WRITE.īack to the Good Fortune Diner was a lovely book. *waves hi to the A:TLA community-you know who you are* She was an avid fan fiction writer and attributes much of her success to those early works and the encouragement and support she received from the many fans and readers of her stories. She’s a big Star Wars nerd (original, not prequel), and loves comic books, science fiction and fantasy, vintage video games, and the anthropological study of online culture, social protocols and communication trends (aka surfing the internet). She has a Bachelor of Journalism from Ryerson University in Toronto. She now challenges anyone who believes romance is “easy to write” to write their own book and try to get published in one year’s time. In that time, she also made the finals in the Toronto Romance Writers’ Golden Opportunity Contest in 2009 and won in the Contemporary Series Category in 2010. It took three years of grueling work before she finally sold her third book, Fighting for Her Love (retitled Her Son’s Hero for publication), to Harlequin Superromance. She’d never read what she used to call a “real” romance book until she started working at Harlequin Enterprises, the world’s largest publisher of women’s fiction, as a proofreader.Īfter reading her first few romance novels, she thought, “If they can do it, so can I!” After all, she believed, like so many people still do, that romance was “based on a formula,” that “anyone could write a romance” and that “They’ll publish anything!”Īfter the first year of writing and attending workshops, she couldn’t believe how naïve she’d been. Vicki Essex (pseudonym) is a romance writer in Toronto, Canada.

Back to the Good Fortune Diner by Vicki Essex