The friend handed a copy of the book to the commercial women's fiction team, who signed her to a three-book deal. Kelk decided not to sign with the agent and instead asked a friend who worked with book publisher HarperCollins to recommend one. However, it transpired that the agent disliked the book and wanted her to work on a different project, and that she "would have to use a pseudonym because name sounded like a cat being sick". She found an agent through a roundabout route having sent out copies of I Heart New York to various agents and having received several rejection letters, one agent got in contact with Kelk. She immediately decided that it would be a series of books, each taking in different cities, partly inspired by her teen experience of reading the Sweet Valley High series of novels. Kelk was inspired to write her first book, I heart New York, after returning from a holiday to New York City to her home in London, England, and being unable to get over post-vacation blues. To date, she has published 19 adult books and is also the author of the children's book series, Cinders and Sparks. She was initially signed up to a three-book deal by publishers HarperCollins following the submission of a manuscript for her first novel. Lindsey Kelk is a bestselling British author, journalist and formerly worked as a children's book editor. "I Heart" series, The Christmas Wish, On A Night Like This
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