My daughter loves romances. She's a Ph.D student at George Washington University, and when my first book without a clinch cover came out, she said to me: 'Finally, a book I can read on the Metro.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every book should have a romance.
When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.
Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.
I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.
Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.
I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.
Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as a young reader. I think they must have appealed not just to my romantic adolescent soul, but I suppose there's also an appealing darkness in both of them.
I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person.
I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that my favorite part of fiction had always been the relationship aspect.
Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.
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