On Writing Romance_ How to Craft a Novel That Sells - Leigh Michaels
When I was fourteen years old and a freshman in high school, I wrote my first romance novel. It was painfully derivative and naive, and despite the number of years that have passed (and let's not go into that, please), it's painful even to think about it now. Thank heaven I maintained enough good sense not to let any of my classmates read it.
In the dozen years after that first effort, I wrote five more complete romances—and burned them all, sending more than a quarter of a million words up in ...