Irish writer Daisy Cummins is probably the most prolific author you have never heard of.
That's because she writes under the pen name of 'Abby Green'.
She has three novels coming out this year alone, bringing her total to 55 under the 'Mills & Boon' banner.
She told Moncrieff she has now been writing full-time for eight years.
"I'd always read Mills & Boon and I always had an interest in writing vaguely, and then I was working in the film industry and I wanted to move out of that.
"I just started thinking more seriously about writing, and I just sat down and started giving it a go.
"I sold my first book in 2006, and I've been writing full-time since about 2013."
Planning 'next two or three books'
Daisy said the way Mills & Boon works is different.
"You send in your submission and it goes on what's called a 'slush pile', and then it gets read, so you can skip going through an agent.
"I can write anything else I want to - I'm just bound to them to do the modern romances that I do, but you can write for other publishers.
"Once you're giving them what you're contracted to do for them, you can really do anything else you want".
The cover of 'Bride Behind the Desert Veil' by Abby Green. Picture by: abby-green.comDaisy said there is no real template in her stories, apart from the basics.
"I'll plan out my next two or three books, and I'll contact my editor and say 'I'm thinking of doing this story and that story'.
"They do need to plan ahead - because there's so many books published every month, they obviously want to make sure there's enough diversity in the themes of the stories so that they don't have eight books coming out that months featuring the same kind of storyline".
'All sorts of themes'
Daisy said while the basis of her novels is roughly similar, ideas are interchangeable.
"The parameters are all the same: boy meets girl, they have a conflict and they live happily ever after.
"But within that, you can introduce all sorts of different themes, ideas and storylines.
"My books are the really high fantasy, glamorous locations, kind of lotto-winning end of the book.
"The fantasy of the alpha male billionaire is a very specific type of fantasy.
"I had one heroine who was as rich as the hero, and she ends up kidnapping him and bringing him to a deserted Greek island.
"Ultimately the characters are driving the story, so when it comes down to it the trappings of wealth and that don't really matter".
But she admitted that the location is important.
"In my current book, 'Bride Behind the Desert Veil', that starts out the hero and the heroine have a very hot, anonymous one-night stand in an oasis in a desert.
"That's slightly more glamorous than Clones, maybe - not that there's anything wrong with Clones".
'Completely different stories'
And Abby said you have to keep things fresh.
"You have to come up with different themes to play on: a lot of themes are quite popular in Mills & Boon - say the arranged marriage, the marriage of convenience or a secret baby.
"I just wrote a book where essentially the couple have a relationship, they have a baby, they split up and then they get back together again.
"That happens to a lot of people.
"The skies the limit, anything you can think of it has been done I'm sure.
"But once you have your characters, they're going to behave in different ways and every character's unique - much like people.
"We could be given the same story lines, and each of us would produce completely different stories".
Asked why she chose her pen name, she explained: "I kind of had a romantic notion of using a pen name.
"I just felt Abby Green was a bit more like a Mills & Boon pen name.
"Also my Christian name is Abigail and - my parents weren't married but - my dad's surname was Green, so it was kind of my name".
Mills & Boon describes itself as 'the UK's number one publisher of romantic fiction.'
The company publishes over 700 new titles a year, with manuscripts from 1,300 authors worldwide.
