黛比•马康伯用文字和行动鼓励各行各业的女性朋友们要去实现她们的梦想。
她克服了她自己生活中的阻碍,成为了世界上最受欢迎的作家之一。她鼓励女人们去实现她们内心的目标,就像她实现了强烈的想当畅销小说家的愿望一样。
当黛比最初决定写小说的时候,人们称她是没有希望的梦想家。她只有高中学历,还是个诵读困难者。她还是四个活泼的孩子的妈妈。没有人相信她有写本书的能力—除了黛比自己。她最终存够了租一部二手打字机的钱,然后每天晚上在她的孩子睡着后,她才能坐定下来写作。
她写了很多年。但是每次当她写完一个故事,邮件寄给出版商时,她的手稿总是被敲上“拒绝”的图章被退了回来。就算这样,黛比还是打起精神,从不放弃。五年过去了,在她写了上千张之后,她在一个下午收到了一封信。这封信是西乐书籍寄来的—他们想买她的故事。她的第一本小说《心灵之歌》在1984由西乐出版社出版了,一跃成为首部被《出版人周刊》评价的浪漫小说。
现今,黛比是国际知名的作家,出版发行了超过100本小说,销量 6千多万。她受到全世界的欢迎,每个月能收到将近3000多封来自读者的信,她会为每封信回信。
在国家巡回演讲时,黛比鼓励女性朋友们要“要锻炼成功的肌肉”。她还为她们如何找到和更换事业,如何建立家庭关系,如何形成健康的关系及其他提建议。
像她的暖心小说一样,黛比鼓舞人心的演讲充满了欢笑和爱。她深刻地关注着女性朋友。她用她的作品感染她们,她坚持在全国范围内指导人们。她用相当大的才能去帮助筹集急需的现金为受虐的女性—建设避难所,教她们识字和做医疗研究。
她和她的老公住在华盛顿奥查德港。她的孩子们都已成人,她已经是外婆了。
Through both words and deeds, Debbie Macomber inspires women from all walks of life to realise their dreams.
She overcame the obstacles in her own life to become one of the world’s most popular writers. She encourages women to achieve the goals that burn in their hearts as fiercely as the desire to become a bestselling novelist did in her own.
When Debbie first decided to write a novel, people called her a hopeless dreamer. She had only a high school degree and was dyslexic. She was also the very young mother of four active children. No one believed she had what it took to write a book--except Debbie. She eventually saved enough money to rent an old typewriter, and every night when the children were asleep, she would sit down to write.
She wrote--for years. But each time she completed a story and mailed it off to a publisher, the manuscript was returned, stamped "rejected." As tough as it was to keep her spirits alive, Debbie never gave up. Five long years and thousands of pages later, she received a letter in the afternoon mail. The letter was from Silhouette Books--and they wanted to buy her story. Her first novel, Heartsong, was published as a Silhouette in 1984, and it became the first romance novel ever to be reviewed in Publishers Weekly.
Today, Debbie is the internationally acclaimed author of more than 100 novels and has sold over 60 millions copies. Popular around the globe, she receives approximately three thousand letters from readers every month. And she responds personally to each one.
In lectures around the country, Debbie encourages women to "exercise the success muscle." She also offers advice on how to achieve success in seeking or changing a career, building family relationships, forming healthy relationships and more.
Like her heartwarming novels, Debbie’s inspirational speeches are always filled with laughter and love. She cares deeply about the women she touches with her writing, and she continues to mentor people around the country. She also volunteers her considerable talents to help raise much-needed funds for battered-women’s shelters, literacy and medical research.
She lives with her husband in Port Orchard, Washington. Their children are grown and she is a proud grandmother.