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If you’re like most readers, you have particular genres or authors or styles that you love. Your shelves are full of books you’ve read and adored, and there are particular sections you gravitate towards in the bookstore. Whatever your genre of choice, sometimes you just want to...

5:00 AM: I call it my witching hour. When I have a deadline looming this is when I get out of bed. But otherwise this is when I get out of bed in my head. All my best ideas come to me at this time. In this...

When did you first fall in love with romance as a genre? The first romance I ever read was Silhouette in high school in Mumbai. One of my friend’s aunt had written it under a super-secret pseudonym. This friend had one copy that we all shared in...

6:00 am—I’m one of those dreaded morning people. I blame my military training for this. I was in the Air Force 8 years, and that early schedule just stuck with me. Of course, I still need some coffee (strong and black) to get me awake enough to...

When did you first fall in love with romance as a genre? Probably in my teens, when I was meant to be studying and instead was lured away by the pictures of women in beautiful dresses on the front covers. My first exposure as a reader was...

When did you first fall in love with romance as a genre? As a teenager. I was an avid reader of Sweet Valley High and Christopher Pike in my early teens and then at sixteen I discovered my mom’s Danielle Steele and Jackie Collins books. Those two...

6:30 AM: I can rarely sleep past 6:30. On the weekends, while everyone else sleeps, I’ll take my e-reader, make a cup of coffee, and read for an hour or so. If it’s a weekday, I’ll make sure the kids get up and moving, pack lunches, and...

When did you first fall in love with romance as a genre? When I was a junior in college, I visited a new and used bookstore just off campus for a hard-to-find textbook. They had a section of romance novels, all dog-eared and well loved. While the...

When did you first fall in love with romance as a genre? At fifteen, with a Harlequin Romance, Where Seagulls Cry by Yvonne Whittal. Who are some of your author-ly inspirations? Christine Feehan, Linda Howard, Angela Knight, Shayla Black, Nalini Singh, JD Robb… just to name a...

When did you first fall in love with romance as a genre? When I was sixteen. I picked Shanna by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss out of my mom’s bookcase. I fell in love from page one. Who are some of your authorly inspirations? I have so many! I...