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Belinda Missen

Categories: One Week 'til Christmas

One Week ’til Christmas // Ten Things You May Not Know

1. This book started life as fan fiction. Yep. Fan fiction. I’ll post it on here for you all to laugh at one day.

2. It was originally about 2300 words long, which I expanded to a 20,000 word novella and accompanying screenplay, which I self-published in 2017.

3. The original book was an homage to movies like Before Sunrise, and was set over the course of a single night. Tom was always an actor and Isobel was a photographer.

4. That novella and screenplay became an Amazon bestseller.

5. The version you get to read today was written in five short days. My editor said: If you really want this to happen, it has to happen quickly. Most Christmas books are locked and loaded by June, and I hadn’t yet started the first draft.

6. Subsequent drafts were written in about ten days each.

7. Two days before the second (?) draft was due, my hard drive crashed. With no backup, I was left to rewrite the book in just five days. (Lesson: use the cloud). My brain was mush by the end.

8. While I’ve never spent a Christmas in London, I’ve been there in mid-December, so used a lot of what I’d seen as reference material. Libertys was a favourite.

9. As of October 2020, One Week ’til Christmas is my highest selling book, having shifted 23,000 copies.

10. I enjoyed it so much that I’m currently working on a Christmas book for 2021.

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Author and sometimes foodie, Belinda is a ridiculous romantic who met her husband after being introduced by a friend two states away.

Residing in country Victoria, surrounded by books, cat-fur, and half-eaten cake, Belinda divides her days between writing rom-coms, baking, and indulging her love of comic books.

Belinda holds a Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing from Federation TAFE. She'll finish her degree one day.

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From my family to yours, Merry Christmas - however From my family to yours, Merry Christmas - however you celebrate it. Today, I'm off to see some family I've not seen all year so I'm a little excited. ⠀
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This is also the end of me for the year. I'm taking the rest of December and January off the old socials. There are books that need to be written and plans that need to be enacted to make sure 2021 is bigger and better than the last few. ⠀
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Thank you for all the comments, laughs and support this year - you've all been fab. ⠀
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