New Zealander Karina Bliss was the first Australasian to win one of the Romance Writers of America’s coveted Golden Heart Awards for unpublished writers, and her 2006 Harlequin Superromance debut, Mr. Imperfect, won a Romantic Book of the Year award in Australia. It took this former journalist five years to get her first book contract-a process, she says, that helped put childbirth into perspective. She lives with her husband and son north of Auckland. Visit her on the Web at www.karinabliss.com.