Author Profile: Phillipa Ashley

Author Name: Phillipa Ashley

Website: http://phillipa-ashley.com/

Bio: I first started writing when I was four, when I sent in a joke to The Beano. After leaving school, I went on to read English Language & Literature at Oxford. Since then, I’ve worked in a vinegar brewery and in advertising, journalism and PR.

I didn’t start writing fiction until 2005, after joining an Internet creative writing site. My first novel, Decent Exposure, a sexy romantic comedy set in the Lake District, was published in October 2006. It topped the Play.com Romance chart, won the RNA New Writers Award and was made into a TV movie called Twelve Men of Christmas which aired on the Lifetime channel in December 2009. Hopefully, it will make its way to the rest of the world and/or on DVD very soon.

And wow! How time flies when you’re having fun. I’ve now had four books published by Little Black Dress and thanks to my lovely readers, they’ve all reached Number One on the Amazon LBD chart. The latest is called It Should Have Been Me which also hit number four in the Malaysian fiction charts.

My books have been or are being translated into all kinds of languages including Thai, Turkish and Russian. They will all be published in the USA from November 2010 by Sourcebooks. Some are available in large print too.

Currently: Phillipa currently lives in a Staffordshire village with her husband and daughter.

Titles: Decent Exposure, Wish You Were Here, Just Say Yes, Dating Mr. December, It Should Have Been Me.

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