Tara Ford

Tara Ford lives in Hampshire, UK with her husband and children. Her first book, Calling All Services, released on 8th July 2013, is a women's fiction/humour novel. Tara is currently writing her second book which she hopes to publish late 2013, early 2014.

Calling All Services is the first story in a series of 4 novels based on the lives and experiences of the members of one, near-normal family.

You can see Tara’s latest book reviews at - http://amzn.to/14DFgwB

You can also visit Tara’s blog at - http://taraford.weebly.com/

A few words from the author...

I have spent the last thirty years waiting to write my first book. Why so long, I hear you ask? Well you know how it is, you get an idea in your head, mull it over for a while, get married, rekindle the dream momentarily, have children and then wake up thirty years down the line and think - Gosh! Where did that time go?

My novel writing dream manifested itself when I was fifteen years old. I had been set some English homework to write an essay about something which I cannot remember now. What I do remember is the trouble I got into when I handed my completed, labour of love, story in. It may seem odd that I got into trouble for handing in homework when these days it is a godsend to get children to even think about doing any homework but there was a slight problem... The problem was that I had written a love story which was rather explicit. Firstly, it was completely unsuitable for a fifteen year old to write and secondly, it was deemed extremely unsuitable material for school work.

Sadly, my essay was discarded and I was duly punished for the crime, although my teacher did take me aside and admit, that the story had been well written, the content was good and I should think about writing more stories. The deep burning desire has stayed with me ever since, although the genre I like to write now is not anything like fifty shades of grey, but more like women's contemporary fiction/humour.