Avril Tremayne tells great stories...on the Page and in person

GUEST POST - GET LOST IN A STORY

Jan Schliesman: Welcome, Avril! Tell me, how often to you get lost in a story?

Avril Tremayne: All the time. I am a voracious reader - and as an opportunistic insomniac, I read a lot! I'm an upstairs, downstairs, mezzanine kind of girl, who starts to panic without a massive to-be-read pile on each level. At the moment, I’m reading The Heat Of The Night by Amy Andrews downstairs (ebook), Hustle by Claire Chilton on the mezzanine (ebook), and Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts upstairs (print, for the bath).

Jan: We met through Harlequin’s So You Think You Can Write contest last fall. Was this the first contest you entered? Did you worry about posting your story for EVERYONE to read?

Avril: I entered a few contests quite some years ago, and was lucky enough to be a finalist in some of those. But nothing on the scale of SYTYCW, where so many people were looking at my work. I was a little bit terrified of sharing so publicly, to be honest - but in the end I found it to be one of the most valuable aspects of the competition. And good practice for being published, of course!

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