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SM Spencer writes clean, contemporary small town romance and young-adult (YA) paranormal romance.
Jump onto my website: http://www.sarahwilliamsauthor.com and join my mailing list to receive a free preview of my book and lots of other inspiration.
If you like what you see you can become a patron for just a couple of dollars a month. Go to http://www.patreon.com/Sarahwilliamsauthor
Transcript:
Sarah Williams: Welcome to Write with Love. I’m Sarah Williams, bestselling author, speaker, and creative entrepreneur. Each week I chat to passionate and inspiring authors about their journey in creative writing. Some internationally published, some do it themselves. Everyone’s journey is different and everyone has something interesting to say. We all love love and love what we do.
Sarah Williams: Today’s show is brought to you by our amazing fans and supporters on Patreon. If you’d like to help support the show and get some awesome bonus episodes, go to patreon.com/SarahWilliamsAuthor to learn more.
Sarah Williams: Now here’s today’s show.
Sarah Williams: Good day, I’m Sarah Williams, romance author and independent publisher at Serenade Publishing. Today I’m talking to Sandy Spencer who writes as S.M. Spencer. Thanks for joining me Sandy.
Sandy Spencer: Thank you for having me Sarah.
Sarah Williams: It’s not a drama. Can you just tell us a little bit about your journey to publication so far?
Sandy Spencer: Okay. Well, I suppose I wanted to be an author since I was a small child. My mother was a librarian, so the house was always full of books and she encouraged us to read from a very young age, and I think what really did it for me was reading Daphne du Maurier. And one of her books, Frenchman’s Creek, I think I must have re-written that book … re-written the ending to that book several times and it stayed with me, cause I would have read that book over forty years ago, and I can still remember the emotions that that book brought up in me. And I always wanted to do that for someone else, I wanted to be able to create something that could do that. But when I first went to university, after about twelve months I realized that this little english major that was 19 years old and hadn’t lived anywhere and hadn’t done anything, wasn’t really gonna make a terribly good author. So I decided to change my major and I studied business instead, business and accounting.
Sandy Spencer: And so, I sort of put all those dreams of writing on hold for quite a few years while I did a job that paid well but didn’t really satisfy my creative instincts. But the good thing that it did was it got me to Australia, because the company I was working for transferred me over here for three months and at the end of the three months I was like, “Wow, can I go back?”
Sandy Spencer: So I was very fortunate to able to come back to Australia, and after again working for, sort of, 20-odd years, I ended up working in Melbourne in Franklin Street, which was very close to the Queen Victoria Markets and Flagstaff Gardens. And Flagstaff Gardens was the original Burial Hill in Melbourne, and Queen Victoria Market, the car park, was the large graveyard. And there’s still some 9000 bodies under that carpark at the Queen Victoria Market that were never exhumed.
Sandy Spencer: So here I found myself working in this area that was just brimming with ghostly possibilities. And so, I started writing a book about ghosts and vampires, vampires were very popular at the time, Twilight was, sort of, at its peak. And so, I wrote a vampire and ghosts story, trilogy, and absolutely loved it, sent it off to a few agents and a couple of publi...
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By Write with LoveSM Spencer writes clean, contemporary small town romance and young-adult (YA) paranormal romance.
Jump onto my website: http://www.sarahwilliamsauthor.com and join my mailing list to receive a free preview of my book and lots of other inspiration.
If you like what you see you can become a patron for just a couple of dollars a month. Go to http://www.patreon.com/Sarahwilliamsauthor
Transcript:
Sarah Williams: Welcome to Write with Love. I’m Sarah Williams, bestselling author, speaker, and creative entrepreneur. Each week I chat to passionate and inspiring authors about their journey in creative writing. Some internationally published, some do it themselves. Everyone’s journey is different and everyone has something interesting to say. We all love love and love what we do.
Sarah Williams: Today’s show is brought to you by our amazing fans and supporters on Patreon. If you’d like to help support the show and get some awesome bonus episodes, go to patreon.com/SarahWilliamsAuthor to learn more.
Sarah Williams: Now here’s today’s show.
Sarah Williams: Good day, I’m Sarah Williams, romance author and independent publisher at Serenade Publishing. Today I’m talking to Sandy Spencer who writes as S.M. Spencer. Thanks for joining me Sandy.
Sandy Spencer: Thank you for having me Sarah.
Sarah Williams: It’s not a drama. Can you just tell us a little bit about your journey to publication so far?
Sandy Spencer: Okay. Well, I suppose I wanted to be an author since I was a small child. My mother was a librarian, so the house was always full of books and she encouraged us to read from a very young age, and I think what really did it for me was reading Daphne du Maurier. And one of her books, Frenchman’s Creek, I think I must have re-written that book … re-written the ending to that book several times and it stayed with me, cause I would have read that book over forty years ago, and I can still remember the emotions that that book brought up in me. And I always wanted to do that for someone else, I wanted to be able to create something that could do that. But when I first went to university, after about twelve months I realized that this little english major that was 19 years old and hadn’t lived anywhere and hadn’t done anything, wasn’t really gonna make a terribly good author. So I decided to change my major and I studied business instead, business and accounting.
Sandy Spencer: And so, I sort of put all those dreams of writing on hold for quite a few years while I did a job that paid well but didn’t really satisfy my creative instincts. But the good thing that it did was it got me to Australia, because the company I was working for transferred me over here for three months and at the end of the three months I was like, “Wow, can I go back?”
Sandy Spencer: So I was very fortunate to able to come back to Australia, and after again working for, sort of, 20-odd years, I ended up working in Melbourne in Franklin Street, which was very close to the Queen Victoria Markets and Flagstaff Gardens. And Flagstaff Gardens was the original Burial Hill in Melbourne, and Queen Victoria Market, the car park, was the large graveyard. And there’s still some 9000 bodies under that carpark at the Queen Victoria Market that were never exhumed.
Sandy Spencer: So here I found myself working in this area that was just brimming with ghostly possibilities. And so, I started writing a book about ghosts and vampires, vampires were very popular at the time, Twilight was, sort of, at its peak. And so, I wrote a vampire and ghosts story, trilogy, and absolutely loved it, sent it off to a few agents and a couple of publi...