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His Secondhand Wife by Cheryl St. John6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() I promised myself from then on out I would only write stories I loved to write without the stress of contractual deadlines. After 25 years under contract, I gave myself a year-and-a-half hiatus. I wrote Americana and westerns for Harlequin Historical for years, branching out into contemporaries for diversity and fun. It was an immense joy to find the courage to join a group of writers and discover they were all people just like me, from all walks of life, and with a dream we shared. I had never taken a writing class, but I had read every out-of-date writing book in the public library. ![]() Who was I? I had a husband and four kids and wrote when they all went to bed at night. When I really dug in and got serious about writing, I think my biggest hang-up was not thinking anyone would take me seriously. The first two romances I read were by Lisa Gregory and LaVyrle Spencer-westerns with true romance! I was hooked. I read extensively as a young adult, devouring Louis L’Amour and many other genres. I grew up watching the old television westerns, so those good-vs-evil and the-good-guy-wins stories appealed to me early on. ![]()
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