Fiona Lowe

Fiona is a multi-published, RITA® & R*BY award-winning contemporary romance author, currently writing her 26th romance novel, having written 20 for Harlequin Mills and Boon and four single title novels for Carina Press and one for Berkley/Penguin USA. She's also written short stories and been published in magazines. Her novel Boomerang Bride was nominated for four writing awards in 2012, and it won the the prestigious RITA® and R*BY. In 2013 Newborn Baby For Christmas was nominated for a RuBy award. Growing up in Papua New Guinea without television, she learned to read very early. One of her first teenage rebellions was refusing to go on a hike with her parents because she was half way through GONE WITH THE WIND. As an adult, Fiona read her way around the world always trying to read a book that related to where she was at the time... The Brontes in Yorkshire, Jane Austen in Bath, The Godfather in Italy, Michener in Hawaii...and so the list goes on. The real world intruded on her life and she was forced to pull her nose out of a book and earn a living. Having read all the Cherry Ames books and grown up hearing stories about her mother's nursing adventures she donned a white starched apron and followed the family tradition. Her favourite areas of hospital-based nursing were Midwifery, Accident & Emergency and the O.R., butpreferring to be her own boss she quickly headed into community health and health education, enjoying the buzz of preventative medicine. It was when Fiona was on maternity leave with her first child that she had the great idea that she could write a medical romance and work from home. It only took her ten years to sell a book! Click HERE to read her writing journey. Fiona's an Aussie but she's lived in Edmonton Canada, Madison Wisconsin, and currently lives in a much warmer place close to the Great Ocean Road, in southern Victoria, Australia. In 2005 she sold her first Medical Romance to Harlequin Mills and Boon. Since then she's sold 21 medical romance books,as well as six single title novels. Fiona has given workshops at the Romance Writers of Australia's annual conference, been guest speaker at libraries talking about romance and has written a monthly column called, 'Ask Auntie Fi' in Heartstalk, the magazine of RWA. She attempts to juggle her writing career with her husband, a rambling garden with 80 rose bushes and two heroes in the making. And just like her heroines she's found herself a wonderful life partner who puts up with her when she loses herself in a good book. She's training up two sons to do the same:-)