Welcome Author Miranda P. Charles!!!

If someone said to me twelve months ago that I would be an author of three contemporary romance novels in a year’s time, I would have laughed and snorted in disbelief. That wasn’t even a clear goal in my head.

I write a lot and have done so for years. When I was younger I used to compose poetry and contributed articles to my school’s student newspaper. In the past few years, I have created non-fiction, self-help type materials for my personal development coaching business. But even though I have a fertile imagination and am prone to daydreaming, it never occurred to me to try my hand at writing fiction. Until a certain point in time not too long ago.

Have you had a moment that was unremarkable at the time that it was only when you look back that it hits you how significant it was?

I had that moment early last year. I was feeling a bit low as my business wasn’t the success I was hoping for it to be. The thing was, I gave up a successful corporate career with an above-average salary to be a personal development coach, and to only earn a measly percentage of what I used to earn as an employee was really dragging me down.

So I was in one of those what-am-I-gonna-do moments when I sat down and forced myself to “listen to my heart”. Funnily enough, what it said was sit and read romance novels. At any other time, I would have ignored this thought and would have continued to poke my brain on how I can grow my business further. But my intuition told me to just relax and listen. So I did.

I was already a voracious reader but this time around, I indulged myself and read book after book – some contemporary, some paranormal, some historical but all of them romantic. And when I say ‘indulged’, I meant I took time off working on my business to just read. (Yeah, crazy, wasn’t it? I thought so too at the time.)

Not long after that, another wacky idea occurred to me. What if I try my hand at writing a romance novel? I had this desire to write about love and the hurt and bliss that go with it. I wanted to push my personal boundaries and swear through my characters and describe sex scenes in detail. (Yeah, some of my family and friends would get the shock of their lives if they knew what I’ve been writing lately ;-)). Most of all, I wanted to give myself a go and see if I could do it.

So one day, I just started typing. Before I knew it, I got caught up in the world of my characters and my first book was born. I thought to myself maybe I was meant to do this after all.

Fast forward to today and the Lifestyle by Design series is complete with three hot and sexy books.

Being a romance novel writer is not an easy journey. But I love it. I’m glad I listened to my heart at that low point in my life. Hand on heart, I love this whole writing fiction thing and I can’t wait to get on with my next series.

I do hope you check out the Lifestyle by Design books and that you enjoy reading them as much as I loved writing them.

As a big ‘thank you’ to Nicole for the opportunity to meet you, her readers, I’ll be giving away a kindle edition copy of Will To Love (Lifestyle by Design Book 1) and Ray of Love (Lifestyle by Design Book 3) to one lucky person.