American writer Day Lecler lives on Hatteras Island in North Carolina. Despite severe storms and frequent power outages, Day finds this climate beautiful and says that the beautiful seascape is more than good compensation. Being flexible and not losing a sense of humor, along with love for the island, she is helped by a love of the craft of writing.
Childhood and youth
Interest in literature appeared in the early years. The family had four children, three of them almost the same age, and mother had to rack their brains than occupy their fidgets. She replayed all the board games with them, many books in the house were read. And one day, the most mischievous of them Day, she offered to write her own fairy tale. The girl came up with a story about the adventures of Cinderella in the Wild West, and the two half-sisters of the heroine had a strange resemblance to the sisters of the author.
The first attempts at writing on this did not stop and lasted until college. In high school, Day Lecler firmly decided to become a writer and nevertheless entered the University of Berkeley as an anthropologist - she wanted to be second Jane Goodall (a famous primatologist from the UK), but, having visited the campaign, changed her mind. The prospect of spending half my life without amenities and running water, she was not happy. Day dropped out. Then she met her husband.
Attempt at writing
Stormy courtship ended five months later with a wedding. Frank's husband revealed the inclinations of a businessman, and the first family affair was the founding of a film library in Berkeley, after he started repairing houses in Seattle, then there was a grocery market. By that time, Day was already pregnant with her firstborn, and her husband, knowing his wife's craving for creativity, invited her to write novels. The next day, they drove to Seattle, Washington, and bought a computer.
The first attempts to become a famous author ended in failure. The publisher returned the manuscript to her and noted that the letter was literate, but too boring, and the stereotypical characters. The next book was waiting for the same. But Day was not disappointed and was not going to give up.
Literary debut
A family tragedy interrupted Day's plans - a brain tumor was discovered in her younger sister. A year later, Nancy died. It was a very difficult time. Day's family has just moved to a tiny condominium in San Diego. Son Matt was three years old, and Day, hiding from everyone, spent all the time with him. In desperation, her husband told her to start writing again or go to work at McDonald's. It worked. Day Lecler wrote her first novel, “Harlequin,” and dedicated it to her sister Nancy.
The writer recalls that at that time she looked like a river closed by a dam. But after the debut novel, she seemed to have broken through - she could not wait in the morning to sit at the table and continue to write her stories. Day found herself - she does what she loves the most. She was not stopped for several years due to health problems (in 2000, she was diagnosed with breast cancer). Day has a ton of ideas, and she has many novels ahead.
Creation
Today, Day Lecler is one of the most famous American bestselling authors, a multiple winner of literary awards. She received the most outstanding award given to writers in the genre of romantic fiction, RITA. Day is a three-time winner of the Colorado Award of Excellence, The Golden Quill Award and many others.
On the account of the American writer more than 60 novels. Among them are 8 books of the Dante's Legacy series, the dilogies The Thorsen Brothers and The Precious Computer, and several other series:
- “Princes of the desert”;
- “Cinderella Ball”;
- "Royal";
- “Sons of Kincaid.”
In reviews of books, readers write that stories are easy to read. Plots, although predictable, are standard for romance novels, but are quite interesting: intrigue and revenge, as in the novel by Day Lecler “Very Close Relations”. Love, despair, passion, as in the book “Remember that night”.
Easy style, well-written heroes, a lot of humor, the duration of the action - from slave America to the present. A find for lovers of romantic stories - love and hate intertwine here, diluted with a pinch of puzzles and legends, as in “The Princess and the Dragon”.
Day Lecler knows the literary preferences of readers and unpretentious plots of his stories generously season with spicy details, detective elements, prickly jokes and realities of life.