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Judy Bagshaw
Bowmanville Ontario, Canada
Age : 47
Graduate of: Trent University, Peterborough Ontario
Profession: Teacher / Writer
Current Residence: Bowmanville, Ontario Canada
Hobbies/Interests/Activities: Reading, writing, attending my writer's group meetings, swimming, road trips
Favorite Book(s): The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings series
Favorite Authors: Stephen King, Ruth Rendall, Robert Ludlum
Favorite Place(s) To Visit: My favorite place on the planet is my family's summer cottage. It's peaceful and quiet and I can write without distractions.
M2H - Judy, Tell us about your current Job/Career.
Judy - I have been an elementary school teacher for 25 years. I've spent 22 of those years in my current school. I've been teaching third grade for the past ten years but moved up to fourth grade this year with last year's class. I'm enjoying the change.
I have derived great satisfaction from teaching. It's what I always felt I was born to do. However, life is about change, and I am preparing for the day when I retire from teaching. Writing is what I will continue to pursue full time when I retire from teaching.
M2H - When did you start writing?
Judy - I started writing seriously in the early 90's. I had long been involved in the size acceptance movement and saw a need for books that featured people that looked like my friends and I. An opportunity came along to write a romance with a plus sized heroine. So I wrote my first book. Unfortunately that market didn't pan out and so I tucked the book away and went on to write another. Then I discovered the world of electronic publishing. I came to understand that these royalty-paying publishers were more open to alternative types of heroes and heroines, and to non-traditional story lines. I found a publisher that was actively seeking stories with plus sized heroines and the rest, as they say, is history.
I have published two novellas, Teacher's Pet and Love by the Pound, and have also published several short stories. I am at the moment in negotiations with a new publisher for these books. You can find out about them at my website, http://writerlady.homestead.com/homepage.html . I've finished a third novel (in the editing stages) and am hard at work on a fourth and fifth novel. I have a couple of non-fiction teaching related projects planned, and last year had several children's stories included in a reading program called Ginn Reading Steps. And for the same company, I wrote a non-fiction book that will be released in 2004. As well, I write a regular column for the newsletter of the SuperSIG (special interest group) of NAAFA.
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