![]() ![]() She’s giving away the hotly anticipated BLACK HAWK (which comes out tomorrow, people!) to one person who leaves a comment, but first: Welcome, Jo!ġ. I’m so thrilled to have Jo as my guest today. With its clever, resourceful heroine and lyrical language, the novel helped me realize that romance can be literary and smart as well as entertaining. Joanna Bourne’s second debut (because it came out 25 years after her actual debut), The Spymaster’s Lady, changed everything I thought I knew about romance. But I had ideas of what the genre was like-as if it wouldn’t have evolved-until I read about an author who’d released a novel the year before to huge acclaim. I finally picked up a romance novel again in 2009, and was hooked all over again. ![]() Then I moved to London and did an MA, which required hours and hours of reading legal and academic articles. Those first three years, I lived in Prague, where English books were extortionate and none of the handful of bookstores sold romance. After I graduated from college I stopped reading romance for seven years. ![]()
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