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Hazel Osmond

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Literature & Fiction, Romance, Short Stories

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I live in Northumberland; I'm married with two teenage daughters and for twenty years I've been an advertising copywriter. I have a clean driving licence, (apart from where I dripped nail varnish on it) and am not yet at that age where I've started to grow a moustache without realising it.

How did I get into writing stories and books? Partly because of a woman's magazine and partly because of a man in a cravat who proposed in my sitting room. The magazine was Woman & Home and I won their short story competition (sponsored by Costa) in 2008, and the man in the cravat was the actor Richard Armitage in Sandy Welch's adaptation of Mrs Gaskell's 'North and South' for the BBC.

Winning the competition gave me confidence; admiring Richard Armitage le ...more

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How do you manage to write your steamy scenes in such a magnificent way without it being awkward at all? sorry, lol, its just that I am starting a story of mine and it'll be my first one and i'm struggling with how ill manage those scenes when I get to them as ive never done it before. Thanxxx X

Hazel Osmond Good question! I think you can only do it by concentrating on the characters and thinking about what they would do. Don't think about how other people…moreGood question! I think you can only do it by concentrating on the characters and thinking about what they would do. Don't think about how other people are going to view it otherwise you'll just be unable to write anything! You'll be too self conscious. I always think that people who write science fiction haven't actually gone forward in time or into space and people who write murders, haven't killed anyone, so writing steamy scenes is just doing the same as they are doing - using imagination and letting it run free!! Just stay true to the characters ... and don't try and be too anatomically detailed. Hope that helps ...(less)

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Hazel Osmond A children's story. A fantasy and another romantic comedy. Well, I like to keep busy.…moreA children's story. A fantasy and another romantic comedy. Well, I like to keep busy.(less)

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Average rating: 3.68 · 2,786 ratings · 284 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Who's Afraid of Mr Wolfe? 3.77 avg rating — 1,485 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The First Time I Saw Your Face 3.63 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Playing Grace 3.43 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Things you’ll discover when you get published

I have somehow managed to delete my blog posts ... yes, I am a technical genius ... so am starting from scratch. Here goes ...

On the eve of ’Playing Grace’ getting published, and in the spirit of passing things forward, I offer you a quick tour of the highlights (and some of the low spots) of the things I’ve learned about having a book ‘out there’. Well, three books out there.

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Published on August 16, 2013 21:47 • Tags: on-being-published, romantic-comedies

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“Jack shook his head. 'Books. What is it with women and books? My sisters were the same. They were always buying books for boys they fancied.'
Ellie bent down and picked up the stone and put it on the table. 'It's like sending a love letter without having to write it yourself,' she said softly.”
― Hazel Osmond, Who's Afraid of Mr Wolfe?

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“Sometimes you have to realise that somebody is not coming back and there will be no happy ending. You don't get the prince, you get the frog. And sometimes after a while the frog doesn't seem so bad and you realise that the prince was not in fact that much of a prince.”
― Hazel Osmond, Who's Afraid of Mr Wolfe?

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“They've read too many of those romances with alpha males striding their way through them. They think that beneath all that granite they're going to find a tender, injured soul crying out for their healing touch. Whereas I see someone whose mother didn't tell him to "make nice" enough when he was little. If he ever was little.”
― Hazel Osmond, Who's Afraid of Mr Wolfe?

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