Her 2014 book is Romance Is My Day Job: A Memoir of Finding Love at Last.From Bloom's Q & A with Joanna Scutts at Biographile:
Biographile: Did you ever think about telling your own story as fiction, or did you always want it to be a memoir?Learn more about the book and author at Patience Bloom's website.
Patience Bloom: Before Romance Is My Day Job even came close to a publisher, it was my NaNoWriMo book for 2010 -- and accidentally nonfiction. I didn’t think I would ever show the story to anyone. Then I decided to fictionalize it, which took about a year. Suddenly, the opportunity to write it as a memoir came about and I wrote an entirely new draft, which is the one out now. So there are three different takes on this story -- two of which will remain buried on a flash drive.
BIOG: Writing your own romantic ending must have felt at times like tempting fate. Was there a particular point in your relationship with your husband when you felt that it would be safe to write about it in this way?
PB: Yes! Throughout the entire experience of writing this book and even some points afterwards, I thought...[read on]
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