Melanie Pearce has loved writing since she was young. Now a full-time Mum and full-time employee, she still manages to find time for her passion.

‘Even though I work full-time I use my dinner hour at work to write on my computer on my e-mail and then print the work off to bring home,’ she explains. ‘I would say to other parents who find it hard to get time that I know how they feel but as most authors recommend it really is a case of writing anything down, anywhere and whatever you can.’

Melanie’s diligence paid off when she completed her children’s story, Jenna’s Star. She approached a couple of publishers who regretfully turned her down until she noticed an article in Writers’ News that described the Fun-2-Learn website, www.fun-2-learn.co.uk

The idea behind the site is to provide stories for parents to download and read to their children. Fun-2-Learn accepted Melanie’s story and she received a small fee that ‘felt like gold’ as well as a massive boost in confidence and affirmation as a writer.

‘When you tell people you are a writer the first thing they ask you is if you have been published.

‘If you haven’t they tend to look at you a bit funny but now I can proudly say I am a writer and I have been published.’ Melanie is now starting work on two new projects, one non-fiction and one fiction.