Two
writers with parallel lives....
Jillian and Kay met one another at a Romance Writers of America
Conference in Los Angeles in 1998. Until they began comparing notes,
they didn't know they had led parallel lives. They were both born
in Surrey, England, Jillian in Walton-on-Thames. Kay in Reigate.
They moved to Canada with their parents when they were in their
teens. Jillian's husband, Jim came from Thunder Bay, Ontario. Kay's
husband, Bob came from Thunder Bay, Ontario. When Jillian moved
to Thunder Bay from Winnipeg after her marriage, she worked at The
News Chronicle for Jack Muir in the Advertising Department. While
in Thunder Bay, Kay worked at The News Chronicle in Port Arthur
and was forced to turn down a job to work for Jack Muir, the Advertising
Manager because she was moving to Vancouver. They have also both
lived in Winnipeg and Vancouver.
And they both became romance novelists, which led to their meeting.
Jillian wrote romances for Silhouette, Berkley Jove, Simon & Schuster
and Avalon before she heard of Scarlet Robinson. Kay wrote many books
for Harlequin Mills & Boon before contracting her first book with
Scarlet. Jillian had never met Kay but she purchased and read Kay's
first Scarlet book, Marry Me Stranger before she submitted her first
proposal to Scarlet. Jillian's book The Marriage Dance was published
in 1998.
Unfortunately, the Scarlet line is no more, but they are still
writing and publishing romances and keeping in touch with one another.
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