Lorraine Regel

Resting on the laurels of winning second prize in a school novel writing competition at age 10, Lorraine took a break from her writing career; a long 28 year break. In 2006, inspired by her toddler's voracious appetite for a good story and spurred on by the glut of dire picture books she encountered, she decided she could do better and began work on a children's picture book. This book is still a work in progress, but has moved to the back burner since the conception of The Survival Guide for Rookie Moms. So, Lorraine cannot boast an illustrious writing career, but even J.K. Rowling's author bio must have been fairly thin at one time.

Lorraine was born and raised in Essex, England. After a fairly unremarkable thirty years of schooling, art college and a career in banking, she changed gear in 1999 and in a busy decade moved to Vancouver, Canada, got engaged in Alaska, was married in Las Vegas, had two babies and, while getting to grips with her new career as stay-at-home-mom, wrote this book.

Lorraine doesn't claim to be a parenting expert in any way, but she has one important credential: she admits to excelling at being a clueless new mom. Having recently worked her way through the trials and tribulations of the first year of motherhood, she describes it as easily the biggest upheaval of her life, and knows firsthand the importance of support, friendship and comradeship during this period.