Jillian Dagg

Most of the time I'm not quite sure who I am. I've been Faye Wildman, Jillian Fayre, Marilyn Brian, Jillian James and I also write under my own name. However, I never forget my roots in the writing business.

My life began in a small town not far from London in Surrey, England, where I grew up reading books. Lots of books. If I wasn't in one of the two libraries in my town, I was in the local bookstore. When I was about twelve, each Wednesday, I used to cycle to the newsagents to pick up a new interest in reading - romance comics with names like Marilyn and Romeo. At the time I had no idea that I was sowing the seeds for my career.

Then I moved with my family to Winnipeg, Canada. If you wait for winter to be over in Winnipeg, you waste half your life, so I found something new to read. Romance novels. I became an avid reader of romances. I read them by the dozen. But I also wrote stories inserting extra romance and happy endings into my favourite TV programmes. I don't know if any of my teachers ever knew that I was busily scrawling the end at the bottom of my latest story when the bell rang to signify it was time for the hero and heroine to ride off into the sunset.