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Maria Roberts

Goodreads Author

Website

http://singlemotherontheverge.blogspot.co.uk

Genre

Chick Lit, Memoir

Member Since

October 2012

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My name is Maria Roberts and I'm the author of Single Mother on the Verge, a book that started life as a blog and was published by Penguin in 2009.

'Hmm,' you wonder, 'so it was a blog that was turned into a book? I have a blog that'd make a great book.' Well yes, that's sort of the truth. It was a blog that became a book but prior to this I'd completed an MA in novel writing, had a few short stories published and written some sketchy plays. It wasn't as happenstance as it first appears but it was coincidental.

What happened was this:

Back in 2007 I was waiting in line for coffee at an art gallery in Liverpool next to Joel Rickett from the Bookseller (no, I'd never met him before) and he mentioned something about a blog that was being turned ...more