One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written. |
In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book. |
Every single book is a challenge. |
If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations. |
I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more. |
I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started. |
My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life. |
I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up. |
I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word. |
For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American. |
I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them. |
Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing. |