Location: Scotland
Member Since: March 30, 2014

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Carol Anne Hunter

Biography

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, I began my working life as an office assistant. Multiple jobs, evening courses and potential careers later I joined the Civil Service and moved to the West of Scotland. Over the next eighteen years I married, became Company Secretary of my husband’s business, and helped raise three step-children while still working full-time. After a divorce and two promotions in the 1990s I returned to Edinburgh in 2001. The opportunity to pursue a lifelong desire to write came in 2007 with an offer of early retirement. I went on to attend courses in Creative Writing and Psychology at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow and began writing a full-length hot-flush fiction for the post-marital woman who could do with a laugh at her life.

While still working on my novel, my short story ‘Bee and Let Bee’ was published by Octavius Magazine in August 2013. Another short story, ‘A Different Kind of Freedom’, was voted runner up in the 2013 Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing competition. I finally completed my novel, Project Me, which is now available in e-book and print-on-demand formats. I so hope you enjoy it!

Smashwords Interview

When did you first start writing?
While I was at junior school! A younger relative had reading problems and I composed a book with a simple story and hand-drawn pictures to help him.
What's the story behind your latest book?
When Maggie's husband of thirty years leaves her for a younger woman, she thinks her romantic life is over and settles into an all-too comfortable rut. But six weeks before her fiftieth birthday an unscheduled event makes her think again - maybe there is life after marriage. She realises she needs to take action but hasn't a clue where to start. Cue the conception of Project Me, to refurbish, rebrand then relaunch herself. But when she pokes her head above the parapet, her life becomes like the night bus - full of users, waster, halfwits and chancers, and all with their own agenda. Can she survive her new psycho-boss? Her domineering best friend? Her manipulative ex-husband? And her old mum...well, she's a whole other story.
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Where to find Carol Anne Hunter online

Website: http://www.carolannehunter.co.uk
Twitter: @carolannehunter
Facebook: Facebook profile
LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/carol-hunter/1a/68/502/
Blog: http://www.carolannehunter.co.uk

Books

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