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Who is your ideal audience?
I always try to appeal to my audience's head as well as heart. I don't believe you have to suspend good sense to fall in love. I try to avoid, even when I use it, the cliché of a beautiful heroine and sexy hero. It's always just the beginning. I've written about couples who hated one another on sight, divorced couples, pregnant women and shady women with pasts, disfigured heroes and heroes who were crooks and rogues. Love comes in all shapes and sizes but it remains when two people find a deeper and richer understanding of themselves and what really matters in the world because of one another. I don't write gratuitous sex but I do write wonderful steamy emotionally involved love scenes!
My ideal audience is anyone -- male or female -- who wants to read an absorbing, well-written, slightly different, often-sexy story of true love.
What drew you to write in the romance genre?
I'm an optimist! Love is the strongest, most POSITIVE emotion in the world. It gives meaning to life, it sustains us in need, and lasts past the grave. I find great pleasure in writing about the emotional lives of interesting men and women and discovering through telling my story what it is they find necessary to fulfil the human need for love.
Do you write in other genres?
Yes, over the years I have written Western, Historical novel, Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense, Paranormal Romance, Saga, and even one Non-Fiction book. This year I'm very excited about entering the mainstream market with a women's fiction/family relationship novel called CROSSING THE LINE, out in August, 2002
How long have you been a writer? And, when was your first book published?
I've been writing since the late 70s. My first book SILKS AND SABERS -- which I sold to the first publisher I approached -- was published March 1980.
What inspires you in your writing?
When writing romance I always try to answer the question, "What is it about these two people that makes it a necessity for them -- and only them -- to be together?" My lovers fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, completing each other. It's my job as a writer to entertain the reader with fresh and original answers to that question. I always look for characters that I can care about.
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