Why I Write Romance

Dear Readers,

Hi. My name is Barbara and I am a romance novelist.

Hold up. Come again?

It’s true.I always wanted to be a writer, but of great masterpieces like F. Scott Fitzgerald, W. Somerset Maugham and other authors who were so good, they only had to use the first letter of their first names.

Maybe that’s why, after revealing the genre in which I am now published, raised eyebrows are the only reaction I get fromfriends who knew me “back when.”

“Back” beingwhen I was on the brink of earning...