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• Shana Abe
• Lauren Bach
• Sherri Browning
• Jacquie D'Alessandro
• Madeline Hunter
• Brenda Joyce
• Donna Kauffman
• Betina Krahn
• More Authors...
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Romance Author Roundtable
Romance. It's more than hearts and flowers. For these sixteen authors --- Shana Abé, Lauren Bach, Sherri Browning, Jacquie D'Alessandro, Madeline Hunter, Brenda Joyce, Donna Kauffman, Betina Krahn, Kat Martin, Glenna McReynolds, Nora Roberts, Sharon Robinson, Amanda Scott, Elizabeth Thornton, Sue-Ellen Welfonder, and Susan Wiggs --- romance is all about writing and it's big business. Read their comments about the genre responsible for more than 50% book sales each year. Now that's a statistic to flirt with!
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| Shana Abé |
Shana Abé is the author of several romance novels including The Secret Swan, The Truelove Bride, and Intimate Enemies. She lives with her husband in Thousand Oakes, CA. She is a former model who is now at work on her seventh romance.
Shana Abé's Website
Browse Abé's books on Amazon.com.
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| Lauren Bach |
Lauren Bach spent most of her childhood visiting mythical, made-up places, a habit that
carried into adulthood. Daydreams, night-visions — she views them as simply more
fodder for the pen. She has a vivid, outrageous, imagination that she tries not to censor.
She wrote her first story in third grade and hasn't set the pencil down since. While
some of her work is composed at the computer, the majority of her writing is still done in
longhand. She has a penchant for Shaeffer fountain pens, because they're made in her
hometown of Fort Madison, Iowa, where her grandmother used to work.
Lauren left Iowa when she was twelve. She has since lived in Florida and Massachusetts.
She currently resides in Durham, North Carolina, where she writes full time, plus a lot of
overtime. Quite simply, she loves to write.
Two of her favorite books on the subject of writing are classics: Writing the
Natural Way by Gabriele Lusser Rico, and, Fiction is Folks
by Robert Newton Peck. Lauren's favorite technique from Rico's book is
"clustering", an exercise where you start with a nucleus word or idea, and
expand out, making associations and connections. From Peck, she learned that "a
novel's key element is characterization"
Her favorite endeavors include being outdoors, traveling, gardening and spending time
with family. Her favorite places include malls, bookstores, and libraries. She laughs a
lot and is delightfully curious — which is a nice way of saying she can be loud and
nosy. She doesn't like chocolate.
When her office is clean — rarely — it's a bright, cheery place lined with
Mary Englebreit posters. A quick scan of the CDs in her office show no rhyme or reason:
The Beatles, Garth Brooks, Aerosmith, Dixie Chicks, Mozart, Cheap Trick, and Moby. She
believes that music, like fiction, is all good.
Photo © Steven Paul Whitsitt
Lauren Bach's Website
Browse Bach's books on Amazon.com.
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| Sherri Browning |
Sherri Browning is the author of Once Wicked and The Scoundrel's Vow. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, where she currently resides.
Sherri Browning's Website
Browse Browning's books on Amazon.com.
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| Jacquie D'Alessandro |
Jacquie D'Alessandro lives in Atlanta with her dashing husband and rogue-in-the-making son. The Bride Thief is her third historical romance for Dell.
Browse D'Alessandro's books on Amazon.com.
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| Madeline Hunter |
Madeline Hunter has been celebrated as "one of the brightest new writers in the genre*." Her first novel, By Arrangement, was a RITA finalist for best debut novel, and won the Waldenbooks Bestselling Debut Romance Author award. In the year and a half since its publication, she published four more historical romances, all garnering critical praise and numerous readers' polls awards. Four have been USA Today bestsellers and her most recent novel secured a position on The New York Times extended list. Bantam Books will publish her next medieval romance, Stealing Heaven, in August 2002.
* Publishers Weekly
Madeline Hunter's Website
Browse Hunter's books on Amazon.com.
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| Brenda Joyce |
Fantasy has always been a huge part of my life -- as strange as that sounds. As a very small child I started story-telling, play acting and directing my friends in dramas - and each and every plot involved a strong hero and a beautiful heroine pitted against the bad guys. I loved making up stories then; I love making up stories now.
I was born in Brooklyn, but raised in Manhattan on the Upper East Side. My grandparents were immigrants from Russia - one grandfather sang his way to America as a beggar, one grandmother, who came from a noble family, was evacuated by the Red Cross at the age of thirteen, never to see her family again and to live the rest of her life as a domestic maid in Hoboken. As a young man my father sold tickets to rides on Coney Island; he made my mother sell watermelons. Today, they live in a penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park and most of New York City.
I live on the Upper East Side in a beautiful apartment with a wraparound city view. I run, box, kick box and do yoga obsessively. I love fine food and fabulous wines and dine out extensively in top or happening restaurants. I travel as much as possible, and under normal circumstances (when I am not about to miss a deadline) I work five mornings a week, turning out ten to twenty pages each morning. I have wonderful friends. All in all, I feel incredibly fortunate to have such a life. When I was first published, I did what came naturally, that is, tell a fast-paced story in which my characters come to life and take over the plot of the book, no matter my intentions. But in the past ten years since I was first published, I have become very aware of what I do. I know that being an author of popular fiction is my destiny in this lifetime. To use the words of a psychic, my mission is to touch many lives. I believe that with all of my heart.
Brenda Joyce's Website
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| Donna Kauffman |
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| Betina Krahn |
Betina Krahn is the author of The Husband Test, The Last Bachelor, Hidden Fires, The Perfect Mistress, and Passion's Ransom, among other romance novels.
Trained first as a biologist, then as a counselor, and having worked in teaching, personnel, and the mental health field, Betina defied both logic and the odds to become a writer of historical romance. But Destiny knew what she was doing. Betina has always been a devoted lover of history and an incurable romantic. She began writing with screenplays in her junior high school days and progressed to steamy poetry in her college years and finally to junior high school career development curriculum, between teaching assignments. She began writing romance in 1980, when a friend gave her a copy of Kathleen Woodiwiss's Shanna.
Betina, a widow, shares her life with two grown sons, a wild and crazy sister, and a feisty salt and pepper schnauzer. She loves hiking, cooking, gardening, woodworking, waterfalls, and volunteer work. Always an avid reader, she loves nothing better than to snuggle by the fire on a frosty Minnesota night with a good book... unless, of course, she can snuggle by the fire with something even more romantic.
Browse Krahn's books on Amazon.com.
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