![]() ![]() Undaunted, Macomber spent $10 to mail the same novel, Heartsong, to Harlequin's rival, Silhouette Books. The editor tore apart her novel and recommended that she throw it away. Macomber attended a romance writer's conference, where one of her manuscripts was selected to be publicly critiqued by an editor from Harlequin. ![]() After five years and many rejections from publishers, she turned to freelance magazine work. Determined to be a writer, she sat in her kitchen in front of a rented typewriter to develop her first few manuscripts, while raising four children. Macomber is dyslexic and has only a high school education. She also works as executive producer on the television adaptations of her books. Macomber was the inaugural winner of the fan-voted Quill Award for romance in 2005 and has been awarded both a RITA Award and a lifetime achievement award by the Romance Writers of America. Six of her novels have become made-for-TV movies and her Cedar Cove series of novels was adapted into a television series of the same name. Debbie Macomber (born October 22, 1948) is an American author of romance novels and contemporary women's fiction. ![]()
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