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This was my FIRST book I ever got published! I can't tell you the thrill after working at my writing for 22 years, to have this book bought by Second Chance at Love/Berkeley Publishing. To say I was over the moon that it was bought can't even begin to put into words! And SCAL demanded that I have a pseudonym, so I chose Beth Brookes. Publishing companies at that time, wanted to "own" your name so that they would enforce you staying with them to publish. That has changed a lot since 1980 when I entered the book publishing arena. I ended up with Beth Brookes for SCAL, Lindsay McKenna for Silhouette/Harlequin, wrote under my ‘real name' of Eileen Nauman for Popular Library/Warner and a couple of books for Harlequin early in my career. I had made my hero, Dominic Tobbar, a civil engineer. And my heroine was one as well. She is an American woman coming down to Argentina to take over a project that is behind and to get it back on schedule. She has to build a pipeline and bridge across a river. And of course, in Latin American, women are seen not as professionals having a career. Keeping in mind I wrote this in 1980 when women down there really didn't have the opportunities for a career like a man did. The friction between the hero who is Italian heritage but his family comes from Argentina, is pretty obvious--he doesn't think any woman could handle an engineering project. Never mind that Cait Monahan, the heroine, has built structures, bridges and pipelines all over the world. It was a fun book to write and was "serious" versus the "fluff and humor" that was being sold at that time. I've never been a fluff writer...just don't have it in me this lifetime. I've always written serious, realistic books because I feel real life is a friction and great challenge in a person's life--whether in real life or in a story like this.
Visit me at here where I have much more on my books for my readers! I've gotten my 109 books placed into series and when each book should be read. So, come on down!
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Thanks for the information about the books coming out under your own name now. If you were writing about a woman engineer building dams and pipelines in South America in 1980, you are definitely my kind of lady!
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