Hi, I'm Sarah Ball, British writer and author of Nine Months, Marry Me and Written in the Stars.
I was born in Loughborough, Leicestershire, thirty-something years ago and have been writing seriously ever since I was a teenager. I've always loved the idea of being a writer (as a child I thought Murder She Wrote was way more glamorous than Dynasty) but I never really thought of it as a possibility until my husband's job relocated. I left my job as a chef in a veggie restaurant and moved to Cheshire, where I didn't really know anyone, and then I found out I was pregnant. I started to write Nine Months to give me something to do when my baby was born; I guess I was lucky because she used to sleep for hours during the day.
A year later I sent my manuscript out to half-a-dozen agents, not really expecting much, but one of them liked it a lot and kept it for what felt like forever! She decided it needed a bit of work and suggested I contact a freelance editor she knows. The editor thought it was fine, passed it on to a publisher she was working with and they offered me my first book deal! Since then I've moved twice; to a village near Bath, where I had my second child (and wrote my second book Marry Me), and then to Cambridge, where I wrote my third book Written in the Stars (I figured two children were plenty) Now we're settled in Cambridge and I'm finally writing book 4.
A year later I sent my manuscript out to half-a-dozen agents, not really expecting much, but one of them liked it a lot and kept it for what felt like forever! She decided it needed a bit of work and suggested I contact a freelance editor she knows. The editor thought it was fine, passed it on to a publisher she was working with and they offered me my first book deal! Since then I've moved twice; to a village near Bath, where I had my second child (and wrote my second book Marry Me), and then to Cambridge, where I wrote my third book Written in the Stars (I figured two children were plenty) Now we're settled in Cambridge and I'm finally writing book 4.