{"id":20,"date":"2016-01-18T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heidi-rice.comrice\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2024-04-28T10:47:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T09:47:21","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-h5hvk-fdbdff64d96b8a767cfa55e4afc8be6a main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-20'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column_table av-gaq8k-1bbc4e15c18757c90081dd2ad62b04ef sc-av_one_third av-equal-height-column-flextable'>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-gaq8k-1bbc4e15c18757c90081dd2ad62b04ef\">\n.flex_column.av-gaq8k-1bbc4e15c18757c90081dd2ad62b04ef{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-gaq8k-1bbc4e15c18757c90081dd2ad62b04ef av_one_third  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_table_cell av-equal-height-column av-align-middle av-zero-column-padding '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-g10gw-3db3b2022fea059adb3aa4468dfb5451\">\n.avia-image-container.av-g10gw-3db3b2022fea059adb3aa4468dfb5451 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-g10gw-3db3b2022fea059adb3aa4468dfb5451 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-g10gw-3db3b2022fea059adb3aa4468dfb5451 av-styling-no-styling avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img class='wp-image-269 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-269 avia_image ' src='https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Selfie-2015-300x300.jpg' alt='' title='Selfie 2015'  height=\"300\" width=\"300\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='av-flex-placeholder'><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-febkk-ad0a66ce57164c8a33404d39bcd7346c\">\n.flex_column.av-febkk-ad0a66ce57164c8a33404d39bcd7346c{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-febkk-ad0a66ce57164c8a33404d39bcd7346c av_two_third  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_table_cell av-equal-height-column av-align-middle av-zero-column-padding '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-tn2g-fffe4ef70d992d17773408483708816b\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-tn2g-fffe4ef70d992d17773408483708816b{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-tn2g-fffe4ef70d992d17773408483708816b .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-tn2g-fffe4ef70d992d17773408483708816b .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-tn2g-fffe4ef70d992d17773408483708816b av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-4  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Bio<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-e98sg-88dc0529c5a89b6f0e5fc854a490449a'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Author Heidi Rice\u2019s first love was watching movies so, not surprisingly, her first proper job was as a film journalist. But after spending years sneaking off to read romantic fiction when she was being paid to watch crappy B-movies, she decided to try writing a novel of her own. After several false starts, her first book, <em>Bedded by a Bad Boy<\/em>, was published by Harlequin Mills &amp; Boon in 2007 (try telling that title to your mother with a straight face!). Eleven years and 50+ published novels, novellas and short stories later, she has had her work translated into over twenty languages, become a USA Today bestseller and sold over four million copies of her books worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Heidi released her first full-length women\u2019s fiction novel with Harlequin Mira UK, <em>So Now You\u2019re Back<\/em>. Her second women\u2019s fiction novel, <em>Summer at Willow Tree Farm<\/em>, came out in Harper Collins\u2019 HQ Stories imprint in 2017. Her latest longer novel, <em>Just Like in the Movies<\/em>, was out in March 2021 from Harper Collins&#8217; Digital First imprint One More Chapter and features a hopeful romantic, a hopeless cynic and a crumbling cinema in Notting Hill where dreams just might come true.<\/p>\n<p>As you can probably tell, she loves her job, because it involves sitting down at her computer each day and getting swept up in a world of high emotions, sensual excitement, funny flawed women, sexy tortured men and glamorous locations where laundry doesn\u2019t exist. She tutors an online romance writing course with the Professional Writing Academy to share the joy! She lives in London with her husband and two sons, and lots of other gorgeous men who are entirely in her imagination (unlike the laundry, unfortunately).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><\/div><!--close column table wrapper. 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It was a bodice-ripping historical romance set in the American West about a Scottish girl adopted by the Cheyenne and a US cavalry captain suffering from PTSD. I never finished it\u2026 I got stuck on what happened after the bodice was ripped.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-13y4s-b04d8b7cc03cd2aff47c5ee0492a81ed'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-2' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-2'>What tips would you give to other aspiring romance authors, looking to be published?<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-2' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Never stop writing\u2026 Come hell, high water, teenage appetites or a million rejection letters! Because it\u2019s only those who never give up who get published.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-abs9w-c5b354769b6f72b248d065e055512093'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-3' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-3'>Where do you look for writing inspiration?<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-3' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Everywhere (but mostly in The Guardian\u2019s Family section on Saturday mornings)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-3k98-1156c0fb57d1fd53ec92116f0caa377b'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-4' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-4'>What is your earliest memory?<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-4' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Showing my Daddy I could tie my shoelaces, age 4, when we lived in Ithaca New York. He applauded me as if I\u2019d won a Nobel Prize. I have been a praise junkie ever since. I\u2019m still waiting to win a Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-94b88-2d4aa6de2ed0e17c2bc196ad6235df69'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-5' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-5'>What advice would you give your 18 year-old self<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-5' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Stop smoking, it\u2019s bad for your health (duh), plus it\u2019ll cost you a fortune and give you wrinkles.<br \/>\nTalk to your Dad more, he won\u2019t be around forever.<br \/>\nBe aware a Comparative American Studies degree is completely useless \u2013 but go for it anyway because you\u2019ll get to study The Wild Bunch and meet your best friend.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t bother reading the whole of Gravity\u2019s Rainbow, no one else will \u2013 and you still won\u2019t understand it.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t sleep with the first guy you fancy at University \u2014 he may be sexy and charismatic, but he\u2019s a total tosser, not that good in bed and he\u2019s going to be in the same seminars as you for the next three years.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-8j8ic-bed775eca724c66aafa341bd117bb3c8'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-6' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-6'>What book would you choose to take on a desert island?<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-6' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>How to Build a Speedboat from Driftwood for Dummies. Or failing that, the whole Outlander oeuvre and Iona Grey\u2019s Letters to the Lost.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-8290g-175b2467de677123b84a48aeb8ea532b'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-7' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-7'>Name three people you\u2019d like to be stranded on a desert island with.<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-7' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>A Navy SEAL, a paramedic, a boat builder\u2026 If they could look like Jamie Dornan, Sam Heughan and Henry Cavill even better (but not essential).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-7n8t8-d78c86defb2ad0fa025146810be31257'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-8' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-8'>Do you believe in love at first sight?<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-8' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Yes, of course. 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