It planted a seed that grew to become ‘Sacrifice’. The image of that young child leaving with a neck brace stayed with Locke. For instance, she distinctly remembers going to her son’s middle school wrestling meet and then watching as another wrestler was carted out of the school on a stretcher, following an injury. The things she sees and the experiences she encounters spark her imagination. Her love stories tend to resonate with audiences because Locke takes inspiration from real life. The author has an account on every significant social media platform because she loves talking to her readers and hearing about all the ways her novels changed their lives. Locke wanted her books to become a safe haven. She saw the stories she wrote as a source of hope, a means of injecting some joy into the lives of people that had so many struggles to contend with. When she entered the publishing field, Locke decided to write contemporary romance because she wanted to make her readers happy. They also taught her so many things, changing her perspective in ways she couldn’t have imagined. She was drawn to stories because they provided an escape to new worlds. Writing and publishing won out because the author loved books.

Writing had to compete with archeology and painting. She wanted to become a writer but it was just one of several career choices she toyed with. But after spending some time in Phoenix and Ohio, she came back.Īs a child, the author had an active imagination. Locke left her hometown to make a new life for herself.

Her town was so small that she graduated with the same 24 kids that had been with her since she entered preschool.

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