All about Allie...
Allie A. Burrow writes sensual contemporary love stories that are both sweet and romantic but with a liberal dash of heat. When not burning up the pages, you'll mostly find her marauding as Aurelia B. Rowl where she pretends to be far more sweet and innocent and writes young adult, new adult, and contemporary romance stories.
She lives on the edge of the Peak District in the UK with her very understanding husband and their two fantastic children. When she’s not writing, you’ll often find her curled up with a book or out running, making the most of the trails and fells surrounding her home or legging it around her local parkrun. Too often lost in her own world, she has an alarm to remind her to collect her children from school and regularly wows her family with curious, hastily thrown together meals as a result of getting too caught up with her latest project… or five! She has also developed the fine art of ignoring the housework and makes an excellent taxi for her children’s many activities and enviable social life.
Allie never considered herself as being a writer. Uh-uh, no way. Not when she was still at school and writing children’s books which got abandoned when they turned into an Enid Blyton tale. Not when she entertained pen pals for hours with letters so long, she had to colour code the paragraphs to make them easier to read. Not even when she was achieving full marks for her creative writing in English. And certainly not when she kept a diary as a teen and wrote a poem with each entry.
Not realising she had a natural, instinctive talent for writing, she turned her back on make believe and fairy tales and threw herself into the ‘real world’. She excelled at many different jobs; from check-out chick to PA, waitress to bank clerk, estate agent to office manager and more. She became a jack-of-all-trades but never settled in any of them, always on a quest to find her ideal career.
After a couple of false starts, she finally found her Mr Right and moved to the other end of the country to be with him. They got married (on Valentine’s Day, aww!) and she realised her lifelong dream when she gave birth to their first child. She gave up work to be a stay-at-home-mum to her son and gave birth to her daughter at home less than two years later. With ‘one of each’, their family was complete and Aurelia needed another challenge… a new dream. But what?
As her children grew less dependent on her, she finally had some time to herself which didn’t involve falling asleep as soon as the kids were in bed for the night. She dabbled with work-from-home businesses, she even did a stint as an Avon lady, but it wasn’t really for her. Then she rediscovered her passion for reading and couldn’t keep her muse on a leash any longer. She jotted down some ideas for a young adult series but then life, also known as the school holidays, got in the way again.
When an idea for a Cinderella themed contemporary romance flew into her head and wouldn’t leave her alone, she sat down and outlined every chapter, then came up with the pen name of Aurelia B Rowl and launched herself onto the world-wide-web with a blog and a Facebook page. Then she realised she should probably learn how to write. Just a minor detail though. Fast forward eight months and she got her big break, a three-book publishing deal… except she turned the contract down. She did what?
Yep, she turned it down. She wasn’t ready. She hadn’t even finished an entire manuscript and needed to be sure that she could, but it’s okay, the story doesn’t end there. Two months later, she typed ‘the end’ on her Christmas themed manuscript and sent it off for a special holiday cheer submission call. A contract arrived in her inbox less than a week later and she finally believed she’d been a writer all along. She has since been contracted by Carina UK (Harlequin Digital), an imprint of Harper Collins.
She lives on the edge of the Peak District in the UK with her very understanding husband and their two fantastic children. When she’s not writing, you’ll often find her curled up with a book or out running, making the most of the trails and fells surrounding her home or legging it around her local parkrun. Too often lost in her own world, she has an alarm to remind her to collect her children from school and regularly wows her family with curious, hastily thrown together meals as a result of getting too caught up with her latest project… or five! She has also developed the fine art of ignoring the housework and makes an excellent taxi for her children’s many activities and enviable social life.
Allie never considered herself as being a writer. Uh-uh, no way. Not when she was still at school and writing children’s books which got abandoned when they turned into an Enid Blyton tale. Not when she entertained pen pals for hours with letters so long, she had to colour code the paragraphs to make them easier to read. Not even when she was achieving full marks for her creative writing in English. And certainly not when she kept a diary as a teen and wrote a poem with each entry.
Not realising she had a natural, instinctive talent for writing, she turned her back on make believe and fairy tales and threw herself into the ‘real world’. She excelled at many different jobs; from check-out chick to PA, waitress to bank clerk, estate agent to office manager and more. She became a jack-of-all-trades but never settled in any of them, always on a quest to find her ideal career.
After a couple of false starts, she finally found her Mr Right and moved to the other end of the country to be with him. They got married (on Valentine’s Day, aww!) and she realised her lifelong dream when she gave birth to their first child. She gave up work to be a stay-at-home-mum to her son and gave birth to her daughter at home less than two years later. With ‘one of each’, their family was complete and Aurelia needed another challenge… a new dream. But what?
As her children grew less dependent on her, she finally had some time to herself which didn’t involve falling asleep as soon as the kids were in bed for the night. She dabbled with work-from-home businesses, she even did a stint as an Avon lady, but it wasn’t really for her. Then she rediscovered her passion for reading and couldn’t keep her muse on a leash any longer. She jotted down some ideas for a young adult series but then life, also known as the school holidays, got in the way again.
When an idea for a Cinderella themed contemporary romance flew into her head and wouldn’t leave her alone, she sat down and outlined every chapter, then came up with the pen name of Aurelia B Rowl and launched herself onto the world-wide-web with a blog and a Facebook page. Then she realised she should probably learn how to write. Just a minor detail though. Fast forward eight months and she got her big break, a three-book publishing deal… except she turned the contract down. She did what?
Yep, she turned it down. She wasn’t ready. She hadn’t even finished an entire manuscript and needed to be sure that she could, but it’s okay, the story doesn’t end there. Two months later, she typed ‘the end’ on her Christmas themed manuscript and sent it off for a special holiday cheer submission call. A contract arrived in her inbox less than a week later and she finally believed she’d been a writer all along. She has since been contracted by Carina UK (Harlequin Digital), an imprint of Harper Collins.
