Kent Bradford, a businessman, is stunned when a flame-haired and gorgeous woman unexpectedly introduces herself as his wife to some important investor. Della, penniless but proud, would never even dream of approaching a charming and attractive passenger for any help, but she is desperate. Della Gilliland, accused of a crime that she didn’t even commit, flees to San Francisco, hardly escaping aboard some east-bound ship. One harmless little lie, which grew into a passion beyond their wildest dreams. “Ship of Dreams” is the first novel in the “Americana Dreaming” series and was released in the year 2000. She tries various strategies to speed that part of the process up, however she will probably always be a slow writer. She is a rare author that enjoys editing/revising once she’s got something to really work with, however her internal editor can get highly intrusive, making every first draft slow.

The toughest part of her writing process is getting that first draft down and finished. The book was “Lord Dearborn’s Destiny”, and the song was “Venus” by Frankie Avalon. She once got an entire book from just a single line she heard in a song that she heard on the radio. It wasn’t until she hit graduate school that she first learned she enjoyed writing fiction, which was an interest she finally pursued a few years later.īrenda is able to get stories from anywhere and everywhere. When Brenda was younger, she wanted to be a veterinarian, then in college she wanted to be the next Marlin Perkins (from Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom). For over a dozen years she’s also collected data on the earnings of writers, something she shares on her site. Scuba diving (with more than sixty dives to her credit), hiking, reading, traveling, and pursuing all sorts of new skills and experiences.īrenda’s an active member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers, Romance Writers of America, and Novelists, Inc., which is an international organization of multi-published novelists and which she was a previous president of.

She started out in traditional publishing with Avon Books, Harlequin, and HarperCollins before making the switch to indie publishing while getting the rights back to her older work.īrenda, in addition to writing, is passionate about embracing life to the fullest, which includes Tae-kwon-do (achieving her second degree black belt in the year 2012 and competed in the USA Tae-kwon-do National Championship tournament). USA Today and New York Times bestselling writer Brenda Hiatt pens sparkling romantic adventure tales.

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