I read my first romance in 2001 - on a plane on a flight from Asia. At the time, I'd finished one story and was in the middle of writing another which will forever remain unfinished under my bed.
The story I read was by Nora Roberts. Before the plane landed in San Francisco, I finished the book and turned to my husband to say, "I could have written this."
Of course that was wrong. I failed to recognize that as Nathaniel Hawthorne said, "Easy reading is damn hard writing."
I've also learned I will never be Nora because I have a different voice, a different sense of humor and a different story to tell.
Writing is a lonely profession full of small victories and larger defeats. Were it not for my fellow Roses I would never have found a way to express my voice and get my stories out.
My books are dedicated to those who believed in me even when I didn't believe in myself.
