Fiona Lowe with the Boomerang Bride giveaway!

We have author Fiona Lowe with us today and she is talking of weddings and Boomerang Bride! 

So we started with the hard stuff first...

When  did you decide to become a writer?

It was a conscious decision when I was at home with  a baby, but ever since I can remember I’ve woven stories in my head and had “conversations” with imaginary people.  Before I had children , I always kept a detailed travel diary and at different times in my life I’ve written a journal, so writing a book in some ways was a natural next step.

What kind of books do you write?

Books with heart and humor J Whether I’m writing a single title book like Boomerang Bride (Carina Press) or a Harlequin medical romance like Career Girl in the Country, my books are set in small towns with big hearts, and my characters are people you might meet down the street. They’re struggling to work out who they are, where they fit in and how best to be happy. More often than not they get it totally wrong, but by the end of the book, they’re on the right track!

What is the biggest obstacle you overcame to get published?

Self doubt. There were times before I got published when I thought, “this is sooooo hard, I should just stop.”  But, I can be very determined with some things and I kept at it. I took classes, I honed my craft and I kept submitting. Eventually, I wrote a book that Harlequin Mills & Boon wanted to buy. That was 16 novels ago.  Self doubt still plagues me at times…usually when I have to start a new story and I think, “Can I really do this?”

What made you decide to write a bigger book?

I was feeling a bit stuck creatively and I wanted to try something new and different. I was sitting alone on a ski-lift, swinging in the breeze and an image of a bride holding a cake and staring into a vacant shop window popped into my head. That image wouldn’t leave me so I started asking it questions and slowly, the idea for Boomerang Bride came into being. I loved writing this book because as it was bigger, I could have a significant secondary story. Boomerang Bride is set in small town USA and it features a lost Australian bride, a hero who would rather be anywhere than Hobin, a family coping with illness, and a policeman who is tired of being, “Mr. Nice Guy.”

What’s BOOMERANG BRIDE about?

Matilda Geoffrey risked it all for love. She left Australia to be with Barry-the man who had swept her off her virtual feet. Now, wearing a wedding dress, she's alone on Main Street in small-town Wisconsin, and things aren't working out exactly as planned...
In town for his annual family visit, Marc Olsen had never seen a bride quite like Matilda-staring into a storefront window, holding a tottering wedding cake, and looking desperately in need of a groom. He may not have any warm feelings for his hometown, but meeting Matilda just as she discovers she's been scammed by her online "fiancé" stirs something in him.
Matilda is not the kind of woman Marc imagined himself with, and Marc is anything but the romantic hero that Matilda has always dreamed of. But as unlikely circumstances throw them together, can they let go of their misconceptions and risk their hearts for love?

Where can we buy your books? 

Boomerang Bride is a Carina Press release and you can purchase it direct from Carina or from Amazon, Nook and other online stores. My Harlequin medical romances are available from The Book Depository,  Mills & Boon UK & Australia, as well as at eharlequin.

What are a few facts about your life?

I’m an Australian, but I’ve lived around the world including Papua New Guinea, Canada and the USA. I have two red-headed sons; the 17-year -old is hugely into playing the piano and all things scientific, and the 13 year-old is into science, drama and visual arts. My commute to the office is up a spiral stair case and I can see the sea from up there, and hear the fog-warning hooter for the ships in winter. My husband has to commute a bit further for his job as a computer analyst.  We’re currently living in Australia, but we love to travel and we do whenever we can. We’re just back from a fabulous time swimming with whale sharks and are busy planning our next trip!

Fiona Lowe is an award-winning, multi-published author of romance fiction with Harlequin Mills & Boon and Carina Press.  Whether her books are set in outback Australia or the USA, they all feature small towns with big hearts, and warm, likeable characters that make you fall in love.  When she’s not writing stories, she’s a weekend wife, a mother of two boys and she’s trying really hard to instill in them heroic characteristics like cooking and ironing.  She’s an avid reader, a guardian of 80 rose bushes, attempts to stay fit and is often seen collapsed on the couch with a glass of wine.  A previous Romantic Book of the Year finalist, Fiona is currently writing her 18^th novel and says, ‘it doesn’t get any easier.’  You can find her at her website, her blog, confused on Twitter and a bit more together on Facebook . She loves hearing from her readers.

And she says...

I love weddings and it’s the  stories about what happened on the day that make me smile. My BIL was a shocking tease so on the  day of my wedding, when he told me on the phone that the fly on my husband’s suit was broken, I didn’t believe him. Turns out it was true and he went to the ceremony via the suit hire company, Lucky we got married in the morning and they were still open!! 

To win a copy of Boomerang Bride, a signed postcard and a boomerang magnet, please tell me a funny wedding story…it might be yours or from a wedding you attended or perhaps it’s a family story handed down over the generations. I’d love to hear it!