![]() ![]() Grace eventually got up the courage to start pitching her manuscripts to agents and editors. ("Mom, why doesn't anybody tell you being a grown-up is hard?") This aim was realized when Beloved Offspring struck out into the Big World a few years ago. While reading yet still more romance novels, Grace opened her own law practice, acquired a master's degree in Conflict Transformation (she had a teenage daughter by then) and started thinking about writing. It also left enough time to grab a law degree through an evening program, produce Beloved Offspring (only one, but she is a lion), and eventually move to the lovely Maryland countryside. ![]() ![]() Her first career was as a technical writer and editor in the Washington, DC, area, a busy job that nonetheless left enough time to read a lot of romance novels. Early in life she spent a lot of time reading romance novels and practicing the piano. She is the sixth out of seven children, raised in the rural surrounds of central Pennsylvania. Grace Burrowes started writing as an antidote to empty nest and soon found it an antidote to life in general. ![]()
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