AUTHOR PROFILE
Kate Hardy
Margaret James talks to the prolific Mills & Boon novelist to find out how she keeps romance blooming
Margaret James
Romantic novelist Kate Hardy recently celebrated the publication of her 100th novel for Mills & Boon, an outstanding achievement for an author contracted to this mega-selling publisher whose titles are read and adored all over the world.
When I spoke to Kate, it soon became obvious she was destined to be a writer. ‘While I was very young, my mum used to make up stories for me,’ she explains. ‘Although I’m the only one in my family to be published, I think that if my mum had lived longer we’d have been a writing team. I’ve always written, starting as soon as I could hold a pencil. I wrote stories about ponies, outer space or ghosts in little notebooks, and for my sixth birthday I asked my parents to buy me a proper typewriter.’