This past 12 months I tried RATHER A LOT of beauty merchandise and I’ve to say I really feel like I have discovered products that I really like and that really work. I prefer to say that I sold my first book by not winning a contest. One of the judges in a writing contest I entered was so appalled at my not profitable or putting that she put me in contact along with her agent who in turn offered my first book, The Reluctant Viking, as a part of a 3-guide deal. Oddly, I started out writing straight historic romances, but about that time Constance ‘Day Flannery wrote one…