Reblogged from Loving the Fifty Something:

I am inviting and featuring ‘Mid-lifers’ who are enjoying life over 50 and who are happy to shout out about great health, fitness, lifestyles, work or their achievements etc, but more importantly who are embracing this time of their lives with pride and open arms.

This month I’m happy to introduce April Munday as my next guest on the ‘Amazing Over 50’s’ series. April is an author of historical romance novels and also writes a fascinating blog called  A Writer’s Perspective, where she shares her love of history.

Welcome April, to Loving the fifty something and to the Amazing over 50’s series.

I’ll hand you straight over to April to tell us what she’s been up to since turning 50.

I’ve been over 50 for the best part of eleven years now, so I’ve almost got the hang of it.  Three years ago, at 57, I retired.  Before that I worked in procurement for more than 30 years. For most of my 50s I was working all hours for a large company. When I wasn’t working, I was commuting or asleep.

Turning 50 was a bit of a non-event and I can’t even remember it now. Looking back, though, I suppose that it was a bit of a turning point. There were things I wanted to do and I thought I’d better do some of them before I got much older. One of them was publishing a novel. I published my first when I was 52. I’ve been telling stories for most of my life and I started writing them down about 50 years ago. It took me a while to find my niche and it turned out to be romances set in the fourteenth century. While I was at work I had to write during my lunchbreak, if I got one, or on trains when I was commuting to London. I’ve now published eleven novels. Eight are set in the fourteenth century and three in the Regency period, because who doesn’t enjoy imagining themselves floating around in an empire dress as the heroine of a Jane Austen novel?

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