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BIOGRAPHY
- KAY GREGORY
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I was a teenager
when I came to Canada with my parents after my English father retired
and my Canadian mother wanted to return to her roots on Vancouver Island.
I'm not sure my parents knew it, but I planned to stay a year then go
back to England and my friends.
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Fate and the Canadian
Navy, in the person of Able Seaman Bob Gregory, intervened. We met in
the unromantic setting of a dog club banquet - he was a blind date - and
were married a year later. We then moved to Winnipeg, which was a shock
to a young woman used to rainy summers and wet, green Christmases. Thunder
Bay, where we lived next, was only marginally warmer in the winter, and
I was relieved when we finally settled in Vancouver with its comfortably
familiar rain.
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For the next few
years I was busy raising two sons and a collection of dogs, hamsters,
gerbils, rats and ferrets. There wasn't much time even to think about
my longtime ambition to be a writer, especially after Bob returned to
school so he could become a teacher. During those years I had more jobs
than I can count, everything from removing the roe from dead herring,
to packaging paper bags (the bags won and I lost the job), running a health
food bar, cleaning office buildings and working in a variety of offices
as a rather uninspired secretary. Once, when asked what I did for a living,
I remember replying, "I don't know. Mostly I change jobs."
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| Eventually I found time to take a series of creative writing courses
which resulted in bad poetry, children's fiction, literary stories - at
least that's what I thought they were - humorous articles about family
life, and what I fondly imagined was suspense. In 1986 one of my
suspense novels turned out to be a romance and I sold A Star for A Ring
to Mills & Boon. Since then I have published 30+ books, novellas and
short stories with Harlequin Mills & Boon and other publishers in over
20 languages. Some of my books are also available in Large Print as well
as in e-format with Muse Creations. Even though I'm a techno-nerd, I
firmly believe e-pubbing will be the way of the future. I am currently
working mainly on short stories and have almost completed a sequel to A
WOMAN OF EXPERIENCE, which I hope to publish as an e-book.
In other words, I am still lucky enough to have the best job in the
world - writing stories that people actually want to read.
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