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" By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The Thorn Birds' on my parents' bookshelf. "
Sarah MacLean
Romance
Parents
Had
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" The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion. "
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" Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance. "
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" Perhaps summer's ephemeral nature is what inspires us to embrace the beach read. We tell ourselves that these twisted plots and wild characters are literary ice cream sundaes - extravagant treats that aren't as calorie-laden when we're wearing flip flops. "
Sarah MacLean
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Ice Cream
Beach
" In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, but romance is shelved in fiction for a reason. "
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Say
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" In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even grandchildren have made an appearance in the final pages of my books. "
Sarah MacLean
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Baby
Fair
" Teenagers are asking, 'Who am I?' and 'How do I fit in?' in every aspect of their lives, and the best YA romances appreciate that there is more to a teen's life than finding love. "
Sarah MacLean
Appreciate
Life
Best
" There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever. "
Sarah MacLean
Like
Suffer
Think
" If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic. "
Sarah MacLean
Your
Think
You
" The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs. "
Sarah MacLean
Adversity
Great
Love
" No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's more, the darker the past, the brighter the future - and the better the read. "
Sarah MacLean
Love
History
Future
" For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself. "
Sarah MacLean
Writing
Character
Kind
" Critics seem to forget that every love story is different - that there is uniqueness in even the most commonplace of matches. "
Sarah MacLean
Uniqueness
Forget
Story
" Alas, summer sun can't last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will once again pale. "
Sarah MacLean
Summer
Sun
Will
" In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding themselves, their power and their future through love. "
Sarah MacLean
Surprise
Future
Love
" No doubt, much of the joy of a great romance is the moment when these stoic heroes crack open and reveal themselves to their heroines - the only women strong enough to match them. "
Sarah MacLean
Strong
Women
Moment
" I'm so thrilled to have won the RITA. The award is particularly special because it is given by other romance authors. It's deeply rewarding and not a little humbling to be honored by such a talented tribe of writers. "
Sarah MacLean
Special
Award
Because
" I want to wake up one morning and know how to write page one, or page 10, or page 250. But I never seem to know how to do it. Every book is different and takes a different structure, style, process, etc. And relearning how to write is where the insanity comes from. "
Sarah MacLean
Style
Book
Morning
" Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership. "
Sarah MacLean
Love
Great
Powerful
" I think back on that day when 16-year-old me scribbled on some silly piece of paper for some long-forgotten high school career-day project that my dream job was 'romance novelist.' "
Sarah MacLean
Job
Day
School
" I never met Colleen McCullough; if I had, I probably would have cried and made a fool of myself. "
Sarah MacLean
Myself
Fool
Had
" As for the zone, I always find the zone immediately after I am sure I will never ever find the zone again because it has left me for some other, better writer. "
Sarah MacLean
Always
Me
Find
" Here's the thing about romance novels: The moment when the hero and heroine discover that they're perfect for each other is often the moment when it's them against the world. "
Sarah MacLean
World
Hero
Moment
" As winter approaches - bringing cold weather and family drama - we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth. "
Sarah MacLean
Drama
Long
Weather
" I'm not entirely sure why I write. "
Sarah MacLean
I Write
Write
Why
" Boring heroines are, in my opinion, the most common romance mistake. We loathe hanging out with women who define themselves purely through their relationships... why would we want to read about them? "
Sarah MacLean
Opinion
Mistake
Relationships
" In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines. "
Sarah MacLean
Love Is
Real
Inspire
" As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don't typically fit into the classic structure of the romance novel - romance is about two people finding each other and falling in love against insurmountable odds. Babies... well... babies are complicated. "
Sarah MacLean
You
Falling In Love
People
" At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only into a perfect match, but into stronger, better, more admirable people. "
Sarah MacLean
Love
People
Perfect
" That first meeting - the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole story to turn into true love - is the single most important part of the whole book. Nail it, and you've won yourself readers. "
Sarah MacLean
Love
Yourself
Book
" 'A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, centered on a legendary pre-Victorian casino and her four scandalous aristocratic owners. "
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Book
Rules
Name