![]() Kelk decided not to sign with the agent and instead asked a friend who worked with book publisher HarperCollins to recommend one. However, it transpired that the agent disliked the book and wanted her to work on a different project, and that she "would have to use a pseudonym because name sounded like a cat being sick". She found an agent through a roundabout route having sent out copies of I Heart New York to various agents and having received several rejection letters, one agent got in contact with Kelk. ![]() She immediately decided that it would be a series of books, each taking in different cities, partly inspired by her teen experience of reading the Sweet Valley High series of novels. ![]() ![]() Kelk was inspired to write her first book, I heart New York, after returning from a holiday to New York City to her home in London, England, and being unable to get over post-vacation blues. To date, she has published 19 adult books and is also the author of the children's book series, Cinders and Sparks. She was initially signed up to a three-book deal by publishers HarperCollins following the submission of a manuscript for her first novel. ![]() Lindsey Kelk is a bestselling British author, journalist and formerly worked as a children's book editor. "I Heart" series, The Christmas Wish, On A Night Like This ![]()
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