Fulford, Joanna


Joanna Fulford grew up in rural Bedfordshire where she enjoyed a degree of freedom rarely afforded to kids today. Her two great passions were horses and writing. She left education to pursue writing full-time. Her nonfiction pieces have appeared in various publications including Writers' News, Writing Magazine and Reflections, a Derbyshire lifestyle magazine to which she is a regular contributor. She also won a Writing Magazine book prize with a piece of short fiction, and her sonnet Frost won a prize in the 2008 Thomas Hardy Society poetry competition. In addition, Harlequin accepted her first novel, The Viking's Defiant Bride. It took eighteen months and four rewrites but she found the process challenging, fulfilling and fun, and is thrilled to have achieved success. She submitted a second historical romance, set in Norman England, and completed its sequel. She is currently working on a story set in the Regency period. When not pressing a hot keyboard she spends time walking or riding on the hills of the Peak District with her husband, Brian.