Victoria Hamilton
1991
Victoria Hamilton is the pen name used by the national bestselling author of mystery and romance novels, Donna Lea Simpson. She has written over 30 books in her writing career spanning almost 10 years. Victoria developed the love for the mystery novels after getting influenced by the successful works of the famous authors Agatha Christie and Jane Austen. She considers it very important for her writing career. She even believes that a little of mystery adds piquancy in the romance stories, and a little bit of romance adds humanity to the romantic stories. Besides writing mystery and romance novels also reading the same, Victoria has a liking for a lot of other things in her life like, cooking, painting, tea, vintage cookware, cats, cross-stitching and a few others as well as others. She also has a passion for Karaoke which allows her a chance to have constant inspiration from nature and several Dionne Warwick tones. Whenever she is not busy with her writing works, author Victoria likes to take long walks. Whenever she cannot get her hands on tea, she loves to enjoy a fruity Merlot as her favorite drink. As of today, she lives happily in Canada. She believes that the best advice for writing novels comes from the letters that she received from the author Jane Austen. In one of the open letters written to her sister Cassandra, Victoria has said that she is not at all into writing humor novels and also said that she will keep on writing as long as she is live. Before becoming a full time author, Victoria Hamilton says that there was a time when she never wanted to be a writer. But, even when she was not writing, Vitoria was busy with reading a lot f interesting novels all the time.