Sara Bennett began writing as soon as she could hold a pen, and always knew she wanted to be a published author. After winning a local short story competition and then having several of her stories accepted for an Australian magazine, she thought her dream had come true. But nothing is easy, and writing doesn't always pay well.

Working at a series of mind-numbing jobs, she continued to write in her spare time and was lucky enough to have one of her manuscripts accepted by Harlequin Mills and Boon in London. Five books later, she moved to mainstream writing in the Australian fiction market, and five books after that she began writing for Avon. So far she has written six books for Avon, with the seventh out in October this year. Sara has no plans to go anywhere, in fact she intends to stay right where she is, writing e.xactly the sorts of books she loves to read. A dream come true, really