OIW is tickled to welcome best-selling romance author, Sarah Hegger, to take us through writing character driven stories in genre fiction. Sarah will explore how to connect your reader to the characters and keep them turning the page. Born British and raised in South Africa, Sarah Hegger suffers from an incurable case of wanderlust. Her match? A hot Canadian engineer, whose marriage proposal she accepted six short weeks after they first met. Together they’ve made homes in seven different cities across three different continents (and back again once or twice). If only it made her multilingual. Mimicking her globe trotting adventures, Sarah’s career path began as a gainfully employed actress, drifted into public relations, settled a moment in advertising, and eventually took root in the fertile soil of her first love, writing. She also moonlights as a wife and mother. To date Sarah has published over twenty critically acclaimed romance novels, enjoyed by fans all over the world. Sarah Hegger brings her page turning mix of humor, heat, love and real human emotions to her delightful mix of endearing, relatable main characters and riveting secondary characters. She currently lives in Ottawa, Canada, with an evolving pet army and aforementioned husband.