Téa Cooper
TEA COOPER
Lurking in the back of Téa’s brain somewhere was the knowledge that one day she would write a novel. It probably started with a rather risqué story in the back of an exercise book at boarding school featuring the long suffering school gardener - not really the stuff romantic heroes were made of but it was before she knew any better.
Life and few heroes of her own showed her the error of her ways and with a baby under one arm, a husband and a half built house she entered a Mills and Boon competition. To her absolute earth shattering amazement she won second place – the prize was a bottle of perfume! Next time she determined she would do better.
But it was still the stuff of fantasy and her family, a herd of alpacas, a protea farm and teaching intervened until one day she decided it was time to do or die. No more procrastination. The characters and plots that had lived in her head for so long were clamoring to escape.
In August 2011 she got serious and joined Romance Writers Australia, entered the Harlequin Mills & Boon New Voices competition and to her horror discovered she hadn’t been – discovered that is. Not even a bottle of perfume this time. But in reality she had won. Procrastination was conquered and determination set in. It was time to get serious.
Tree Change is her first contemporary romance novel and is available now. Since then she has written two more contemporary romances, The Protea Boys and Passionfruit & Poetry, and three historical novels Lily's Leap, Matilda's freedom and A Winning Streak. They will all be published in 2013.
When Téa is not at her computer or lurking in the museum she can be found on Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads or you can email her at teacooperauthor@gmail.com.
On the Web
Books
Fiction
- Tree Change - December 2012, (Breathless Press)
- Lily's Leap - May 2013, (Lyrical Press)
- "The Protea Boys" - May 2013 (Breathless Press)
- "A Winning Streak" - June 2013 (Breathless Press)
- "Passionfruit & Poetry" - June 2013 (Crimson Romance)
- "Matilda's Freedom" - July 2013 (Harlequin Escape)
