137:. While working during the afternoon, she would often plot an ending for the story, and almost always eventually discovered that she liked her endings better than the ones the author intended. After her daughter was born in 1980, Dodd decided to stay at home and try to write a book. Over the next ten years, she wrote three romance novels. For five of these years, she also worked part-time at an
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novels are based on her mother, an "impoverished yet determined woman who, in spite of adversity, fights to take control of her life and always wins." Her novels have since been translated into twelve languages and have appeared on
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intending to write. When she reaches the midpoint of the manuscript, she often does a larger-scale revision. By the time she reaches the conclusion of the story, it is ready to be sent to the editors.
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Golden Heart Award for unpublished authors, resulting in its publication in 1991 by HarperCollins. The book won many awards and has not gone out of print.
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in an engineering firm, designing a sawmill. During her lunch hour, Dodd would begin reading a
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