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Marguerite: My real name is Dana but when I decided to write romance, I often knew Dana would be also unisex for the romance industry. So I thought about my nickname. My grandma utilised to call me Daisy and my hubby at some point picked it up too. Marguerite is french for Daisy and I'm component French so I loved that -). Arotin was my late mother-in-law's maiden name so I took the name in honor of her and plus it flowed nicely wi...

Py: How did you get your pen name as Maruerite Arotin?

Marguerite: My true name is Dana but when I decided to write romance, I usually knew Dana would be also unisex for the romance marketplace. So I believed about my nickname. My grandma used to call me Daisy and my hubby eventually picked it up as well. Marguerite is french for Daisy and I am portion French so I loved that -). Arotin was my late mother-in-law's maiden name so I took the name in honor of her and plus it flowed nicely with Marguerite. I will be marketing and advertising all books below my pen name of Marguerite Arotin.

Py: When did you commence reading romance novels?

Marguerite: It was just following I met my hubby that I picked up my extremely initial romance novel. I feel meeting a person so ideal for me taught me that true really like does exist and that possibly these romance novels I usually believed had been so sappy could come correct. But then I met Phil and the attraction hit me like a ton of bricks. I can't envision any other guy who can fulfill my needs as significantly as he can and I wouldn't want to satisfy any other man but him. Given that I was a bit of a history nut, I picked up a historical by Linda Lael Miller and then got addicted to the genre.

Believe it or not, prior to meeting my husband, Phillip, I was a bit of a young cynic when it came to romance and relationships. I met Phil when I was nineteen years old and prior to that, nicely I seemed to end up with a lot of jerks. At least I had a sense of humor of my unfortunate social life: I kept telling everybody I may as properly adopt a bunch of cats and become the world's youngest spinster.

Py: What inspired you to write your romance story, The Locktender's Daughter?

Marguerite: It wasn't till the unthinkable happened, when my hubby lost his job and I just had a child, that I even regarded as writing my personal my romance novel. I've often loved local Ohio history. I would walk the old towpath trail questioning what life was like back when the mules pulled the boats through the murky canal water. I happened to find some notes for a story I wanted to write, a historical romance set along the Ohio & Erie canal, and decided I would write it. By the time my hubby found one more job, I was too caught up in the story to quit writing. As I learned much more about my craft, I realized how crappy the initial MS I completed was and decided it wasn't worth revising. But that 1st story led to a sequel, referred to as The Locktender's Daughter, and I loved that tale :-). I knew I didn't have sufficient experience yet to attempt a large print publishing home or even go for an agent, but I submitted my tale to a handful of e-book/POD presses and TheLocktender's Daughter located a home with Wings.

Py: Any tips for romance writers?

Marguerite: I've learned that absolutely everyone has their own writing tactics and they have to use what works best for them. Some folks just let the story to roam freely and other's tend to go all out and do complete outlines. I do a mixture of each.

I want to add here is how crucial it is never to give up on your dream. It took me a very good two years of submitting The Locktender's Daughter prior to I identified a house for it. I knew I had a fantastic story, I knew it my heart. I loved Bethany and Tyler too significantly to give up them. Writing is one of the toughest jobs out there and these rejection letters can hurt. But you have to place it aside and don't forget that individuals behind these rejection letters, agents, editors, and so forth, are not rejecting you and if you love your story and characters adequate, you have to keep trying no matter what. I did and I located a fantastic house for Bethany and Tyler :-).

Py: Your Contact Information and your giveaways to readers?:

Marguerite: My very first historical romance novel will be published with Wings Press ( http://www.wings-press.com/) in May of subsequent year. My site at http://www.ohioromance.net

As far as giveaways, I have the very first three unedited chapters of The Locktender's Daughter posted at my internet site @ http://www.ohioromance.net/excerpts.htm

I've genuinely got to update my page simply because it says that TLD is nevertheless in the hands of the editors at Wings and it's already been contracted. Guess when you devote also considerably time writing, you forget about straightforward things like remembering to update your site. I'll get it updated before Sunday. I do post free excerpts in my myspace blog from time to time and have been posting a lot lately from my teenage sorceress for my NANOWRIMO YA project. Also I will be operating a contest around May in conjuction with the release of my story, I have no thought of what I am going to do but but it will most likely have some thing to do with canal history :-).

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