Favorite Color:  Blue

Favorite Animal:  Lion

Favorite Food:  Chicken

Favorite Movie:  Final Destination 1, 2 and 3

Favorite Author:  Dean Koontz

Favorite Past Time:  Writing and swimming

Favorite Song:  Eye of the Tiger

Favorite Singer/Group:  Nickleback

About Roxanne

Growing up I called many places home.  With my father being a bricklayer, we moved with the work.  After many years of never calling one place home for long, I found it difficult to make friends so I turned to what I knew best and that was books.  I was fascinated with the tales, the adventures, and the excitement hidden within the pages and soon grew to love reading anything I could put my hands on.  In no time, I decided to write my own book.  My first experience was when I was 9 or 10, but of course, my little hand written book on lined paper folded in half was not everything I had hoped it to be.  Discouraged I put my ambition of writing books on the side and worked my wonders on school essays and projects.  When I was 15, my family moved from the small town of McGregor outside of Windsor to an even smaller town called Kapuskasing.  The trip down was the most frightening thing I had seen as the snow drifts continued to get taller and taller the farther north we went.  Many months later, I met my future husband and three years later we had two beautiful babies.  My love of reading never ceased but my writing ambition did not peak again until the spring of 2005.  Working in a call center named NuComm, I started my first novel--Misery's Companion.  One year later, I wrote the last word and went over it three times before sending it to a self-publisher.  Little did I know the road I opted for was a bumpy and weaving road.  Once Misery's Companion was in its publisher’s hand, I began work on its sequel, which was tentatively named Deadly Lover.  Within six months, I had finished it and sent it off to various traditional publishers.  I did hear back from several but settled with Publish America.  After a few months of working with the company to finalize my novel and ready it for store shelves, we parted ways leaving me with Tools of Terror back in my hands and unpublished. 

Within a week of this, a fellow author and confidante informed me that the best thing for me to do would be to pull Misery’s Companion back as well and have them edited and edited and edited until they were as good as possible.  Only then should I try to sell the two plus the final novel (renamed Revelations) in the trilogy to a traditional publisher.  After a week of debating this drastic move, I took the leap, pulled Misery’s Companion off the shelf, and began the exasperating job of editing all three novels.  Today, I am proud to say that all three have been reviewed, edited, modified, altered and revised to the best of my ability thanks to the many sites I have found all over the internet.  I have begun sending queries and synopsis’ to every single publisher known to man for my genre and have crossed my fingers.  With plenty of denials coming in daily, I still try to keep my head up because I believe in this storyline, the characters, and my plight thus far.  I know that it only takes one person—the right person, to see my story and snap it up and I am holding out faith that one day, some day that person will see my work.  Until this time comes, I have decided to begin writing my fourth novel, to immerse myself in what I love—writing, while I continue to send out queries hoping for the best for my first three books.

This is my story thus far and ‘hopefully’ soon I will update this site with the great news that I have a publisher, a traditional one, one who takes not only my books seriously but also my writing.

Thanks for listening to my story;

Roxanne Sackville