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Romance Author Roundtable
10.
AOTW: Have you ever written a book outside the genre?
Barbara Samuel: Oh, I write around the edges and always have. Some veer into what some might not call romance, but I still do. As I've branched into women's fiction, the actual pages spent on the primary romance might not be as large as when I wrote category, but I'm always writing about love and mating and how those relationships matter to our lives. In A Piece of Heaven, the romance between Thomas and Luna is a primary force for change in both of their lives, so it's quite central to the plot. In No Place Like Home, which is released in paperback this month, Jewel's primary force for change is coming home to make peace with her life, and the romance with Malachi is more like a reward for her learning her lessons. It's still quite sexy and romantic, though. (And I have had more comments on Malachi than any other hero I've ever written, so he must have been a pretty great reward! )
Judith McNaught: No.
Dorothy Garlock: No, but I have written plenty obituaries.
Rachel Gibson: No.
Christina Skye: Four of them.
Julia Quinn: No.
Mary Lynn Baxter: No.
Shirlee Busbee: Not yet. Doubt I ever will simply because any book I would write would have to have some element of romance in it, even if it was a mystery or whatever.
Brenda Novak: No. My first book was only published in November of 1999, so I haven't had much time to branch out.
Carly Phillips: No. I love the happy ending romance provides and can't imagine moving outside that.
Leslie Carroll: My third novel, Temporary Insanity, is essentially a chick lit book without a central romance (but with the same humor and tone I've brought to my romances) that will be published in trade paper format by Avon. I have also written nonfiction (an NYC niche guide book), and fragments of literary women's fiction novels and short stories, which I intend to complete as soon as I catch my breath.
Jo Beverley: I have written a fantasy novel, but it's not published. It still needs work, especially as it's now over ten years old. I have one SF short story published, and there will be another next February in a collection called Irresistible Forces. My story is called "The Trouble With Heroes" and is about what happens to warriors because of what they are forced to become in order to save the world.
Teresa Medeiros: My first book, Lady of Conquest, was originally published as a historical novel. But when Bantam reprinted it in 1998, they published it as a romance.
Gaelen Foley: No.
Candace Camp: No. I've incorporated mystery elements into many of my books and even some eerie elements in the one I'm doing now, but I've never written a book that did not have a romance at its center. I always like to read a book more if it has a romance in it (whether or not it's called a romance novel), and that's what I like to write, as well.
Kerrelyn Sparks: No, I haven't. Romance has become so all-encompassing, that I don't think I'll ever need to venture outside the genre. After all, I can write suspense, comedy, paranormal, or historical, and it's still Romance. And to me, every great story has some romance in it.
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