I am a New Zealander born and bred, a mother, grandmother and recently a great grandmother...what can I say...we started young!!!

Most of my stories are set in our wonderful country in the antipodes. I’ve always written, freelancing for local and National newspapers, but Romance is my true love.

I’ve been a reader of romance from the moment my sister introduced me to The English Women’s Weekly and their wonderful serialised romances. I fell in love with the genre.

I know the world is full of heroes. I have my own hero right here at home to prove it. We fell in love when we were young teenagers...and believe me we heard all the old chestnuts...you’re too young to know your own minds. Young love never lasts. It gives me great pleasure half a century on to thumb my nose and say, “You know what? You were all wrong!”

Why Romance? I write romance because to me first and last...family matters.

I’ve always been a scribbler. To me writing is both a pleasure and a cathartic outlet for stress and grief.

My enduring loves are reading, my house is crowded with books on every subject imaginable. My other great hobby is gardening. Now, after a lifetime spent farming, I live with my husband in semi-retirement on the traditional Kiwi quarter acre section with a cat and a dog.

How can you write if you can't cry?
~ Ling

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