Marina Pacheco

I am a travelling author who currently lives in Lisbon, after stints in London, Johannesburg, and Bangkok. My ambition is to publish 100 books. It's a challenge I decided upon after I'd completed my 33rd book. Or I should say, my 33rd first draft. I am currently working at getting all of those first drafts into a publishable state. This is taking considerably longer than I'd anticipated! Especially as I keep getting distracted by ideas for yet more books.

I am very lucky that stories keep occurring to me, and I am able to write quite a lot in a day. Having said that, I'm a binge writer. When I'm on a roll I'll happily write three or four thousand words a day (my record was 18 000 words in one day). But I can also have months where I hardly write at all.

I am an introvert and I think that makes me quite sensitive to overstimulation. I find rollercoaster, action-packed blockbusters too stressful to read. This probably influences my writing which reviewers have described as gentle. They are the kind of books that are perfect to curl up with on the sofa on a rainy day or take to the park to read under a tree. They are feel-good stories where good triumphs over evil and the girl gets the boy with some bumps along the way.

If you want to get in touch, there’s plenty of options:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100bookschallenge/

Twitter: @marinapacheco15

Email for press inquiries, speaking or anything else:

hi@marinapacheco.me