To demonstrate, he has created 3-D images of popular tourist destinations from the hundreds of images posted to the Flickr photo-sharing website and launched an online game, PhotoCity, in which Cornell and the University of Washington (where Snavely began his research as a graduate student) are competing to build 3-D campus maps. Snavely has applied the techniques of computer vision to still photographs to match the details of many photos and stitch them together into 3-D renderings. The fellowship includes a cash award of $200,000 given over two years and access to Microsoft resources such as software, invitations to conferences and engagements with Microsoft Research. The awards, previously known as Microsoft New Faculty Fellowships, are intended to support young scientists 'who are advancing computing research in novel directions with the potential for high impact on the state of the art, and who demonstrate the likelihood of becoming thought leaders in the field.' I’d found my new love, as in reading romantic fiction and inevitably writing it too.Noah Snavely, assistant professor of computer science, has been named one of eight Microsoft Research Faculty fellows for 2011. At some point I discovered Mills & Boon Romance books and that was pretty much it for me. So, I started to write, by hand at first, scribbling short stories in notebooks which never saw the light of day. To this day I don’t know why, unless it was a natural progression from my never being without a book close by-often several-because books have always been an important part of my life for as far back as I can recall.

Somewhere in between my girls growing up and the grandchildren arriving on the scene, I started writing. Eventually I met my husband, we married and produced two daughters who then grew up and between them presented us with two gorgeous grandsons and one beautiful granddaughter. So what was I doing twenty years ago before I wrote books? Well, I did the all of the usual things, like growing up and attending school, finishing at secretarial college, which I hated, then spent the next several years wandering aimlessly from job to job.

I know it isn’t a great average when compared with some authors but it sounds pretty good to me! Twenty years with almost forty books published or in the pipeline. So, hang on for a minute while I take this huge milestone in. Hi, my name is Michelle Reid and I’ve been writing for Harlequin Mills & Boon for the last twenty years, and the crazy part about it is that I only realised it had been twenty years while updating this page!

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