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Alice Peterson

Alice Peterson

http://www.alicepeterson.co.uk

https://twitter.com/#!/AlicePeterson1

I never thought I’d become a writer. My dream was to play tennis professionally, but my career was cut short at 18 by a devastating diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

In my early twenties I was encouraged to write my personal story, and this was the beginning of a new journey. Since writing my autobiography, A Will to Win, I have written five novels, published both in the UK and abroad. I am a romantic at heart, and enjoy writing about the trials of love and relationships, and I often use disability as a theme.

My first novel, ‘Look the World in the Eye’, was long-listed for the Guildford Literary Festival Pendleton May First novel award, 2005, and for the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2006. I devise most of my plots out dog walking with Darcy, my handsome Lucas Terrier.

It's a fact

The New Writers’ Scheme is the only one of its kind run by published authors for the unpublished. In 2009, 13,652,266 words of love were submitted in the New Writers' Scheme