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I write romance because I love to read romance.

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.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

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.

There hasn't been a great romance in my life.

I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washington Post' did get round to me eventually.