She was a housewife in Stillwater, Minnesota, a teacher's aide in a local junior high and had an assortment of hobbies including gardening and photography. Her latest was trying to write a gothic romance novel like her favorite, Kathleen Woodwiss. She completed the typescript manuscript and sent it off to the same paperback publisher of that favorite novel, “The Flame and the Flower.” Unlike struggling would-be authors who submit without an agent to dozens of publishers, Lavyrle Spencer's first novel, “The Fulfillment,” got accepted, she almost immediately received an advance of $2,500, and her first effort was published...
- 9/30/2011
- by Arthur Axelman
- The Wrap
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