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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.

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Ever since reading Jean Plaidy's 'Queen in Waiting,' I've felt deep admiration for Caroline of Ansbach.

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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.

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Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.

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People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.

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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.

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I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 28th, 1977

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