Abby Gaines Romance Novelist From New Zealand

As a teenager, Abby Gaines showed her bent for writing, especially romantic novels. She wrote her first romance novel during her schooldays. It was written in longhand in her school notebooks. When finished, she typed the manuscript and sent it Mills & Boon in London. But it was rejected by the company.

While attending university, Abby Gaines studied French, Japanese, Spanish and German for her B.A. After her graduation, she worked for IBM in its sales and marketing department. Here, she met her husband. After her first child was born, she decided to be a homemaker. But her creative inclination led her to start a career as a freelance business journalist. She later had two more children in the next two years. In the meantime, she completed her post-graduate marketing qualification.

During this time her ambition of writing romance novel surfaced again. She started writing on it as well as attending romance writing classes and conferences. She kept on sending manuscripts to Harlequin during these times. But these were all rejected. Her first publishing contract from Harlequin Superromance came in five years time.

In the meantime Abby Gaines took a part time job as an editor of a speedway magazine, which was meant to earn that extra money. But the job of an editor turned out to be real fun and she became obsessed about the sport.

When she heard about the product license deal between Harlequin Books and NASCAR, Abby Gaines asked for a story proposal deal with the company. After acceptance of her proposal, she had written four novels having NASCAR as a theme. Two of the novels she had written had been published in 2007, while two more are ready for publication in 2008.
Till now, Abby Gaines has sold a total of 12 books that include a novella which was published in the A NASCAR Holiday 2 Christmas anthology from HQN. The works that Abby Gaines had written include Teaming Up, August (2008), The Diaper Diaries, March (2008), Fully Engaged, March (2008), A NASCAR Holiday 2, November (2007), Back on Track, May (2007) and Married By Mistake, April (2007).

Abby Gaines loves to read, travel and cook for her friends. She also loves to spend time with her husband and children. Despite being a successful novelist Abby Gaines is also an excellent homemaker as well as a superb mom. abby gaines