Rebecca Heath
Biography
I began writing "Letters To My Mother" in 1978 when the events that inspired the story were fresher in my mind than they are now, more than 30 years later. As the novel was nearing completion, I got busy with other projects, put the manuscript in a box and forgot about it. In 1996 my husband and I moved aboard our boat and the box went into storage, where it remained until March 2008; when our household goods finally caught up with us, I discovered the manuscript and went into a frenzy of rewriting.
"Letters" is listed as a romance, but it violates a number of taboos usually associated with this genre: David, a university professor, is 28 years older than Kate, the student he falls in love with, and the ending, while certainly not unhappy, does not conclude with the marriage or engagement of the protagonists.
Knowing how few novels sent to literary agents and publishing houses survive the slush pile, I am not sufficiently masochistic to consider submitting my book for publication, nor am I willing to make the changes which would be required to market my book as a conventional romance; that is not the story I wanted to tell. Hearing from readers who have been touched by the book is reward enough.
Biography - oh, that's right; I'm supposed to say something about myself. I'm an alumna of the University of California, Berkeley, retired after 30 years in data processing, and I enjoy bicycling, traveling and sailing.
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