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January 31, 2008 5:17 PM

SPOTLIGHT: Carole Matthews

Writing about Carole Matthews' latest release It's A Kind of Magic recently, I realised that we hadn't shone the Trashionista spotlight on this bestselling chick lit superstar. Quick! Let's remedy that right now!

Carole's debut novel was published way back in 1998. Since then she's written twelve bestselling books. According to Carol's website, when she isn't writing, she likes to snooze in her garden shed, rollerblade or trek in the Himalayas. Okay then.

Carry on over the cut for more on Carole and her bibliography

Carole was born near Liverpool in England. She left school at eighteen and moved to London, working first as a secretary and then as a beauty therapist. Like something out of one of her books, this morphed into television presenting on a daytime health and beauty programme with Rosemary Connolly, and then to freelance journalism.

Her route to publication was similarly fairytale... Carole started writing fiction in 1996 and won a short story competition very quickly.  She spent the prize money on a week-long writing retreat, intent on finishing her first novel. The course tutor was so impressed he recommended an agent, who signed her up and sold the book to Headline. Phew!

Bibliography (UK titles):

The Chocolate Lovers' Diet 
The Chocolate Lovers' Club
Welcome To The Real World
You Drive Me Crazy
With or Without You
The Sweetest Taboo   
A Compromising Position   
A Minor Indiscretion   
For Better, For Worse
More To Life Than This
A Whiff of Scandal
Let's Meet on Platform 8

Related posts: Spotlight archives

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