Fiorella's double-decking in Austin today with two of her best friends, Paula and Evelyn. Strangely, they've never met each other, but they're both high-powered woman and both writers. Hmm...that description could be applied to Fio too.
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Speaking of writing, Yours Truly has laid out a plan to get herself into the romance-writing mood (pant, pant) again. She's skimming some of her old favorites like Linda Howard (pant, pant, pant) and is also picking up new books by various friends (pant, pant, pant, pant).
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Seriously, omances novels are about relationships, which means more than sexual high-jinks. The writer has to create an atmosphere, a background, that most people can relate to and even identify with, then introduce her main characters and put them through hell so the reader will consider their Happily-Ever-After to be well-earned.
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Most romance writers are female and write traditional male-female stories, although some male writers also go the traditional route. Other authors, both male and female, write about male-male or female-female romances. Fio has no problem with any story that involves a loving relationship, but opposes sadism in any form. In fact, she and her heroine waged war against it in Fio's second published book.
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Many authors have signature characters in their books. Fiorella's is---guess what--a dog! Your Girl cannot imagine life without a dog so neither can her heroines.
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