Victoria Grant

Canadian Contemporary Romance Author

Born in Lancashire, England to a Lawrence Welk-loving mum and a Monty Python-loving dad - tea drinkers all - we moved to Canada when I was seven. "Say book, say look" my new classmates would hound me just so they could have a good chuckle at my accent. But being incredibly shy, this was a great way for me to make friends. 

My love of words and a creative imagination prompted English teachers to urge me to write for a living. My grade 12 Creative Writing teacher suggested I send a sample of my “sizzling dialogue” to the (then) three major television studios in New York City. He was convinced one of them would hire me to write for a soap opera. But, being the still-shy teenager I was, I didn’t have the courage to do it.

Through the years, I wrote lots of stories while I earned a living as an Administrative Assistant in various businesses including a bank, a car rental firm, an ice cream company, and a pharmaceutical manufacturer. I was more than a little peeved when I discovered none of them gave out free samples. Do you believe that? None of them! Geez.  I went on to own a Wedding Coordination business for many years (talk about romance), all the while being happily married to the love of my life (yep - even more romance!).

These interesting jobs plus wedded bliss are a constant source for oodles of ideas for romantic plots, swoon-worthy heroes and feisty, beautiful heroines, and, of course, the happy ever afters. 

So amidst endless cups of strong English Breakfast tea while Glenn Miller tunes and the dead parrot sketch whirl around in my brain, I write steamy-sweet romances with a dollop of humour. I have an irresistible need to create captivating characters whose lives I can make completely miserable before giving them their happy ending.

I currently live in Mississauga (just west of Toronto) and constantly wonder how wine and chocolate magically appear in my house...

 Victoria

Victoria Grant is a member of the Toronto Romance Writers