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Jean S. MacLeod began writing for Mills and Boon in 1939, aged 31, shortly after she gave birth to her only child, David Walton.MacLeod, born in Glasgow, was one of the Mills & Boon's first Scottish novelists, and promoted as such in the Scotsman and other Northern newspaper. She began as a writer of short stories and serials for popular Scottish manazines such as the People's Friend, published by D.C. Thomson.
"I didn't know (the ropes) when I started," MacLeod recalled: "I just picked up the first directory and looked for publishers' names. I found the Nonesuch Press and I thought, "Well, that sounded like me, nonesuch". And I had a lovely letter back from them that said, "Dear Madam. We're sorry but we only publish definitive editions of Kipling and George Bernard Shaw." So I thought, well, I'm on the wrong track there. And then I looked again and found Mills & Boon, and that's the end of the story."( Read more... )
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Source: Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon
& http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/1982625.romantic_novelist_celebrates_100_years/ & http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article872319.ece( Vintage Covers )
