Its currently languishing on my hard drive, forever stuck on page 330. The result was a very melodramatic western historical which reads like a bad Elizabeth Lowell rip off. Unfortunately I wasn't able to fit the phrase "and her loins melted like hot wax" into any of them.ĭuring my stint as the world's surliest receptionist, I took my first stab at writing. It wasn't exactly my dream job, but at least my writing appeared on several web sites and in many software marketing brochures. After graduating from Stanford with a degree in English Literature, I worked in a variety of soul sucking admin jobs before I began my career in marketing. It took me quite awhile to pursue my dream. I started to imagine myself, living in a cabin in the mountains somewhere, writing romance novels. My high school teachers marveled at my ability to read romance novels under the desk and still score straight A's. Shortly thereafter I discovered Judith McNaught, Johanna Lindsey, Karen Robards, Catherine Coulter, Shirlee Busbee among others, and devoured their lavish historical epics full of overbearing alpha males and the women who brought them to their knees. I spent the next month working my way through her entire back list. Like so many romance readers, my first romance novel was by Kathleen Woodiwiss - The Flame and the Flower, to be exact.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |