Allow me to introduce myself.  I’m Cathryn Kusner-Thompson, wife, mother, and romance novelist.  Wow… that takes some getting used to!  Not the wife and mother part, but the novelist part.  It was never part of my grand plan to become a writer, but now, after several drafts and countless edits I am pleased to call myself  just that.

In late October of 2011, my husband told me that he planned to enter a contest for National Novel Writing Month and asked me if I wanted to do it too.  After some thought, I decided I would try it.  How hard could it be to write 50,000 words in 30 days?  Now…. what to write about?  Well, I’m a girl who loves live theater, New York, Ballroom Dance, and Soap Operas…. oh, and anyone with an accent.   I rolled all of that up into a ball and came up with Once In Love With Lily.

The manuscript has now been sent to the editor.  Work on the cover art is underway.  With any luck I will be a published author before the kids go back to school!