Hieber’s Perilous Prophecy
Have you imagined your favorite characters as teenagers? At New York City romance reading series Lady Jane’s Salon, Leanna Renee Hieber reads from her novel The Perilous Prophecy of Guard and Goddess....
View ArticleStarting out in romance
For Jayne Ann Krentz, writing is like a compulsion or addiction. She felt the need to keep writing and creating stories, even before a publisher accepted one of her manuscripts. She told filmmaker...
View ArticleFinding romance (novels)
Have you ever wondered how your favorite authors were introduced to romance novels? From discoveries made while babysitting to gifts from relatives, authors Jessica Andersen, Kristan Higgins, Debbie...
View ArticleMany different lives
In first grade, a teacher praised her reading and set Debbie Kaufman on the road to becoming a lifelong reader. Reading let Kaufman experience a “number of different lives,” beginning with the magical...
View ArticleMaking modern love
We take for granted that reading has an impact on who we are as people and that reading about sex and love affects how we can imagine ourselves in relationships. Finding evidence of this, however, and...
View ArticleChildhood reading
To be a writer, you have to be a reader. What books did romance authors fall in love with when they were children? What started them on the road to reading, and then on to writing? Where did they stop...
View ArticleA gift of romance
When Caridad Piñeiro’s family came to the U.S. just after the Cuban Revolution, she was just four years old and didn’t speak any English. She’s now a successful intellectual property attorney, as well...
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