Through her fiction she explores the impact of lies and secrets on families, particularly women, over the generations as well as exploring community themes like the impact of wildfires. Fiona’s also had short stories published in Australian Woman’s Day. Since that time she has sold nine books, been nominated for the RUBY (Australia’s premier romance writing award), and won a Cataromance Reviewer’s Award. In the year 2005, she sold her first Medical Romance to Harlequin Mills and Boon. While an adult, she read her way around the world, always attempting to read something that related to where she was at the time: Jane Austen in Bath, “The Godfather” while in Italy, the Brontes while in Yorkshire, Michener in Hawaii, and son.Įven though she rewrote the endings of books in her mind, it was the birth of her first child that prompted her to write her first book. One of her first teenage rebellions was refusing to go for a hike with her parents since she was half way through “Gone With the Wind”. Having spent her early years in Papua New Guinea, where without TV, reading was her main source of entertainment and it set her up for a lifelong love of books. Fiona Lowe is an Aussie yet she has lived in Madison, Wisconsin Edmonton, Canada and lives in a much warmer location close to the Great Ocean Road, in southern Victoria, Australia.
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