'The book and the marketing is going to be all the stronger for the fact that I'm in this place rather than in the place I was two or three years ago'

Hayley Dunlop

is a rom-com writer whose debut novel, It’s Beginning To Look Alot Like Christmas will be published in August this year. Hayley wrote the book as a way to find joy during the during the dark days of 2020, and by the end of 2021 was inundated with requests from agents for the full manuscript. It was a strong start but since then, things have been far fr…