Jon Rance: Lisa J Hobman

Hello,

Today's guest blogger is Lisa Hobman. When I met Lisa I had just got my publishing deal with Hodder and Lisa was writing her first book. She asked me for advice and I was happy to oblige. Since then we've kept in touch and I'm so proud that her first book and now her second have been picked up by a publisher. Lisa writes passionate, romance novels set in her beloved Scotland, so if you love romance or Scotland, these books are definitely for you. Lisa is a lovely person and deserves all the success she gets. So sit back, have a cup of tea (or coffee if you fancy) and read about Lisa's latest book THROUGH THE GLASS.

Firstly I would like to say a huge thank you to Jon for having me as a guest on his blog today. Jon and I connected through social media quite a while ago now thanks to our mutual love of writing. Ever since then Jon has been a supportive friend who had advised me on my path to becoming a published author.

Now, if you’d asked me two years ago where I would like to see myself in the future I think I would’ve answered “Living in Scotland, running my own little craft business.” How things have changed! I did move to Scotland but I never would’ve said “Living in Scotland with two published novels under my belt” that’s for sure! But here I am and boy does it feel surreal. Suffice it to say that my craft business was stopped almost as soon as it had started!

When I started writing I had one goal in mind. To write passionate, tug at the heart romance. At the time I don’t think I, realistically, expected that anyone other than my friends would be reading what I had written but clearly I was wrong about that!

So why romance? I think it’s simply because love is a universal language. Everyone wants to find love; to be loved by the one person they adore the most. Right from our first crushes we are looking out for the person we want to spend our lives with. What a wonderful subject to read/write about; the passion of a first kiss or a first meeting; wondering where a relationship will go; the heartache of losing love and finding it again. It’s all-consuming. For me anyway. I love to read books where there are twists and turns, trials and tribulations that the couple in the story has to overcome to prove their love for each other.

I’m such a romantic at heart and as a new author I simply aimed to write stories about characters that I wanted to read about myself. What I aim to do now is to leave readers feeling warm and fuzzy with a happy glow. If I achieve that then I’m ecstatically happy.

I hope you enjoy my new novel THROUGH THE GLASS.