Hazel decided big names sell so she began by asking well-known authors to donate stories for a book to raise cash for breast cancer – and raise awareness of her new company. The plan worked like a dream and best selling romantic novelist Katie Fford was among those who agreed to donate stories. “I’d never set up a company before, so I asked the Welsh Assembly for business advice and applied for a £5,000 business loan.” “As part of the course I learnt how to put a book together, and I was hooked,” Hazel explains. So, after completing her MA in Creative Writing at Trinity College, Carmarthen, she decided to become a publisher. With husband Bob working abroad, Hazel was effectively a single mother who needed to do something for herself, that was family-friendly and that would bring in some cash. Hazel started Accent Press in 2003 when Julia, Felicity and Richard were just five-years-old. Back then she’d never have imagined that her babies would become the impetus for her to launch a successful publishing business from her bedroom. When Hazel Cushion gave birth to triplets in the late 1990s she wondered how there would ever be room for anything else in her life.
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