ÿþ<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US"> <head profile="http://www.w3.org/2000/08/w3c-synd/#"> <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy for Linux (vers 1 September 2005), see www.w3.org" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="keywords" content="Narelle Atkins, inspirational romance" /> <meta name="description" content="Narelle Atkins - inspirational romance author" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="site.css" /> <title>Narelle Atkins - Author biography</title> </head> <body> <div id="header"> <img src="header.jpg" alt="banner" /> </div><!-- header --> <div id="menu"> <ul> <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li> <li><a href="bio.html">Author Bio</a></li> <li><a href="links.html">Links</a></li> <li><a href="mailto:info@narelleatkins.com">Email me</a></li> </ul> </div><!-- menu --> <div id="content"> <h1>About Narelle</h1> <img src="n.jpg" align="left" alt="n" /> <p>I grew up on the beautiful northern beaches in Sydney, Australia and I've never lost my love for the ocean. I now reside in Canberra with my husband and children. I started writing romance in 1998 and when I discovered the inspirational romance genre in 1999, I knew I'd found a genre I would love to write. I write contemporary inspirational and sweet romance set in Australia.</p> <p>Writing became a lower priority when my children were young. But my desire to write didn't diminish and I started writing again during my precious few hours of 'kid-free' time. A regular at my local gym, I've discovered the benefits of exercising to enhance my creativity. I'm a busy mum with a part-time supervisor role in retail and I'm also a co-founder of the 30 Minute Bible Studies website.</p> <p>I have completed three manuscripts, with a fourth manuscript in the works. My first manuscript, 'The Boss's Daughter', placed in the final round of the '2007 Golden Pen', '2007 Golden Rose', '2007 Touched By Love' and '2008 Gotcha!' contests.</p> <p>In 2011 I'm serving as Co-President of the Faith, Hope and Love Inspirational Chapter of Romance Writers of America (FHL) and I served as Vice President of FHL from 2008-10. I'm also a member of American Christian Fiction Writers, Romance Writers of Australia and Canberra Romance Writers.</p> </div><!-- content --> <div id="footer"> <p>Copyright&copy;2008-2011 Narelle Atkins. All rights reserved.</p> <p> <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10-blue" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional" height="31" width="88" /></a> </p> </div><!-- footer --> </body> </html>