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I believe that love is truly transforming and that the love between a man and woman is one of the most interesting and special relationships a writer can explore. Romantic relationships teach us a lot about each other and ourselves. Romances are uplifting and positive and we certainly need that, I think. You write both romance and women's fiction. What unique qualities does each genre offer? In a romance, you get to zero in on the relationship between a man and a woman and focus on that. Women's fiction has given me a chance to explore other kinds of relationships -- between parents and children, between friends, and to write about situations I can relate to as a woman -- work, home life, social issues -- things that might fall outside the parameters of a romance. What characteristics do you like your heroes and heroines to possess? Interesting question. I think my heroes and heroines need a strength of
character. I like for them to do things that maybe I wouldn't have the courage
to do myself -- speak up for what they A sense of humor is important to me, so I give them that -- and intelligence, because I think brains are terribly sexy . Other than that, almost anyone can end up being a hero or heroine. It's fun to see how characters take shape during the course of writing a story. What type of conflicts do you like to weave into your story plots? I'm a character-driven writer, so conflict mostly grows from character for me -- something inside the character is keeping them from a relationship or keeping them from getting what they want. Some of the things I've used include self-doubt, characters who because of their background feel that they can't fit into their opposite's world, a fear of losing their own independence if they love someone else too much, fear of being hurt -- things like that.
My Backwards Life is about a 35-year old single mom who wakes up one day and realizes the life she's living now is not the life she always thought she would have. So she sets out to make some changes to get her life back on course. Learning Curves is about a size 12 woman in the size 2 world of television broadcasting who's out to prove that size doesn't matter.
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believe in, ask for what they want, stand up to bullies, etc.
Tell
us about your novels "My Backwards Life" and "Learning
Curves".