I'm very pleased to have Victoria Connelly here today to talk about her trilogy of magical romantic comedies, 'It's Magic'.
I think I’ve always wanted to be a writer. I started my first novel when I was fourteen
and used to take it to school and pass it under the table for my friends to
read during Maths lessons. Of course, it
was a romantic comedy and I’ve never stopped writing them since.
I never finished that first attempt at a novel and it was many years and
many rejections from agents and publishers later that my first one was
published. It was called Flights
of Angels and it was about a young widow who has her own group of tiny
guardian angels to take care of her. It
was a romantic comedy with a touch of magic but that touch of magic was what
stopped it being published in the UK.
Nobody seemed to think that readers wanted magic in a rom com. However, things were different in Germany
where five publishers set up a bidding war for it. It was a whirlwind experience and resulted in
four different editions of the book being published as well as a film being
made – an experience I’ll never forget!
Then came two more magical romantic comedies. Unmasking
Elena Montella about a woman who is given a magical Venetian mask which
helps her choose which of her three (yes – three!)
fiancés is the right one for her. And Three Graces about a young woman who
marries a duke and goes to live in his ancestral home only to find it’s haunted
by a rather opinionated eighteenth-century ghost.
I had so much fun writing these books but they were never published in
the UK even though they’d done so well in Germany. So, whilst writing my ‘straight’ rom coms
like A Weekend with Mr Darcy and The Runaway Actress, I’ve decided to
make my magical rom coms available on Kindle where you can buy them
individually or as a trilogy called It’s
Magic.
So, if you like your rom coms peppered with naughty guardian angels,
magical Venetian masks and haughty ghosts, give them a try and let me know what
you think. I really hope you enjoy them.
You can find out more about Victoria on her website, or follow her on Twitter at @VictoriaDarcy
You can find 'It's Magic' here.
Thanks to Victoria for being such an interesting guest!
