Background
Megan Chance was born on December 31, 1959 in Columbus, Ohio, United States, into the family of C. William and Anita Chance.
Megan studied at Western Washington University, where she received Bachelor of Arts in 1983.
Megan studied at Western Washington University, where she received Bachelor of Arts in 1983.
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2017
Megan Chance was born on December 31, 1959 in Columbus, Ohio, United States, into the family of C. William and Anita Chance.
Megan studied at Western Washington University, where she received Bachelor of Arts in 1983.
Megan Chance is the best-selling, critically acclaimed, award-winning author of several novels. Her novel "Bone River" was an Amazon Book of the Month, "The Spiritualist" was chosen as one of Borders Original Voices, and "An Inconvenient Wife" was a Booksense pick.
According to critics and reviewers, her ability to write convincingly about the inner lives and complex relationships of her characters emerged clearly in her first book, "A Candle in the Dark", which won the 1992 - 1993 Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best First Historical Romance. "After the Frost", Chance’s second novel, tells the story of Belle Sault, who returns to the rural Ohio community of her upbringing from exile in New York. She is in search of her daughter Sarah, whose illegitimate conception forced Belle to flee years earlier. Belle rediscovers her roots while negotiating new relationships with her reputation-conscious mother and her stepbrother Rand, Sarah’s father.
Chance uses the nineteenth-century West as a backdrop in her sixth novel, "The Way Home." Eliza Beaudry yearns to escape the sharecropping life of her parents. Rather than marry a local man of her father’s choice, she becomes pregnant by a gambler passing through town. Cole Wallace has the good looks and devil-may-care attitude of the classic romance hero but is not interested in marrying Eliza, and when her father forces the issue, Cole volunteers his shy, outcast brother Aaron in his place. Though socially clumsy and a stutterer, Aaron is also caring and thoughtful, and his poet's soul at last wins Eliza over.
Critics love the work of Megan Chance. The Best Reviews says she writes “Fascinating historical fiction.” “Provocative and haunting,” says Booklist. “Stellar characterization, terrific dialogue,” praises Publishers Weekly. “Impossible to stop reading,” raves the Seattle Times. In addition to her historical fiction novels, Chance is the author of the young adult "Fianna Trilogy", short stories, and eight historical romance novels. Her novels have been translated into several different languages.
She is also a popular workshop speaker whose speaking credits include the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference, Romance Writers of America National Conference, Edmonds Write on the Sound Conference, the Seattle Assistance League, Timberland Regional Libraries, and many others.
Megan admits her being a Democrat.
Quotations:
"I'm an aspiring writer, but I'm dealing with two things: I get discouraged every single day because 96% of manuscripts are rejected, and I haven't had an idea for years, literally. There's too many people wanting to be writers, and knowing there's so much competition just kills me a little every day. When I get motivated, immediatly something appears about the industry that kills it. Any tips on how to deal with this?"
"If I waiting for inspiration, I would never get anything done. Some days I'm inspired, and other days I'm not, and I promise you that no one can tell the difference in the writing. You make your own inspiration by sitting down and doing it. It's this simple: I write at least 6 days a week. I don't stop until I have five pages. Some days, that's all I get. But I learned a long time ago that I never hit "flow" or "inspiration" until I hit page five. If I can get five pages, I can get ten. But I'll never hit that flow until I get through the hell of those five - and there are days when it feels like that is impossible. That's how I get inspired to write. I write."
Quotes from others about the person
Nothing Megan Chance writes could be called ‘typical.’ [She] gifts readers with something special and original every time.
Megan married Kany Levine in 1995. Megan Chance lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two daughters, Maggie and Cleo.
