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If you want to talk about a subject that is important to women, romantic fiction is the place to talk about it because that's where your audience is.

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.

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

I'm interested in female friendships and family relationships. So I don't write the traditional romance, where you just have the hero and the heroine's love story. I like intertwining relationships.

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.