Norma Curtis was born and brought up in North Wales and wrote her first short stories for a teenage magazine. Her first unpublished novel, Torchwood, was made into a screenplay and her first published novel, Living it Up, Living it Down won the Romantic Novelist Association's New Writers' Award and was chosen for the WHSmith Fresh Talent promotion. After publishing Striking a Balance and The Last Place You Look, she became chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association and it was in this capacity that she met Queen Elizabeth II at a reception at Buckingham Palace.