Laura Griffin
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Sherry Thomas:
Hi Sherry! I was wondering what was the first book you remember reading that inspired you to write romance?
Sherry Thomas
There are two. The first I read it when I was 23, a newer title from an old favorite author, and it was, for me, irredeemably stupid. I was so pissed off that I'd wasted my son's nap time--which was all the free time I had in a day--reading that book that when my husband got home that day, I told him that I was going to write a romance. (Ah, the arrogance of youth.)
The second was WICKED, by Susan Johnson. For some reason, all the historical romances I'd read until that point all had a major war/politics/mystery subplot. And I was convinced I sucked at plotting. WICKED had no such thing--okay, there was a brush with the Napoleonic Wars, but it wasn't central at all--and it was just the H/H going at it hot and heavy from England to Italy and back again. After I read--and hugely enjoyed--the book, I said to myself, now that's a plot I could do. :-)
The second was WICKED, by Susan Johnson. For some reason, all the historical romances I'd read until that point all had a major war/politics/mystery subplot. And I was convinced I sucked at plotting. WICKED had no such thing--okay, there was a brush with the Napoleonic Wars, but it wasn't central at all--and it was just the H/H going at it hot and heavy from England to Italy and back again. After I read--and hugely enjoyed--the book, I said to myself, now that's a plot I could do. :-)
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