Hi, my name's Michelle Vernal. I'm a 42 year old, married Mum of two boys who lives in the pretty little town of Oxford located in New Zealand's South Island. Writing is something I have always used as a way of expressing myself and my first foray into the romantic and humorous world of chick lit is recorded in my thirteen year old self's compulsory school journal. In it, much to the delight of my English teacher, I described in minutiae the heartbreak of being dumped after my first school disco. It was a scene I re-wrote into The Brazilian Job my first novel. After my first son was born I att...