- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an eighteenth-century girl at heart. I wouldn't mind being set down in London in 1715, in the midst of all the drama of the Hanoverian succession.
- Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of our fundamental human needs is finding our partner that we hope we will stay with for the rest of our lives. You often find the same search in other genres. The mystery novel has a romance subplot. Literary novels often focus on that relationship but do not often end well.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun... then my work here is done.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a horrible stereotype of both the romance writer and the romance reader as somehow undereducated and unprofessional, when in fact there are a number of incredibly well-educated professional women who have chosen to leave their other careers and go into writing romance.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.
- Historical
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.
- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 6, a family friend gave me E.L. Konigsburg's 'A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver' and launched me on a full-blown Eleanor obsession. I wanted to ride off on Crusade, to launch a thousand troubadour songs, to marry a king - and then jilt him and marry another.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.'
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Say what you will about Queen Eleanor, she was a savvy, quick-witted woman who made her mark on history. And as the founder of the Courts of Love, what better patron monarch could there be for a romantic novelist?
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.
- Course
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching.
- Princess
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020