Mary Tate Engels (born March 27, 1943) is an American writer of almost thirty romance novels since 1982 as Tate McKenna and Mary Tate Engels.
 She has co-written five romance novels under the pseudonyms Cory Kenyon and Corey Keaton with Vicki Lewis Thompson and two non-fiction books for Texas Tech University Press.
 She lives with her husband in Tucson, Arizona.
According to Tatin Yang in the article "Romansang Pinoy: A day with Tagalog romance novels", Tagalog romance paperbacks were thin Philippine versions of romance novel books that could be found at the bottom shelves of the romance section of bookstores, wrapped and bound with book covers that are decorated with Philippine comics-styled illustrations, such as "a barrio landscape with a badly dressed guy and girl locked in an embrace".
 As a form of "escapist fiction" (escapism) and "commercial literature", Tagalog romance novels generally follow a "strict romance formula", meaning the narratives have happy endings (a factor influencing the salability of the novel), the protagonists are wealthy, good-looking, smart, and characters that cannot die.
 Normally, the hero or heroine of the story falls in love and "goes crazy" over the admired person.
 However, later authors of Tagalog romance novels deviated from portraying so-called "damsel-in-distress and knight-in-shining-armor characters".
 Contemporary writers also turned away from writing "rags-to-riches plots".
 The stereotypical norm had been replaced by the incorporation of storylines with "interesting scenes, characters [who are ready to face challenges or to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of other people], dialogues, and new angles to old plots".
 Authors such as Maria Teresa Cruz San Diego, who used the pen names Maia Jose and Tisha Nicole, ventured into the fantasy romance genre, and into topics that are related to politics, ecology, gender issues, prostitution, mail-order bride syndicates, white slavery, non-governmental organizations, and breastfeeding programs.
 Apart from writing about ideal lovers (men and women) and ideal situations, other novelists wrote about true-to-life settings, or at least based the stories from personal experiences.
 Thus, Tagalog romance novels came to mirror or replicate the "roles that women and men play" in Philippine society.
Anne Holmberg (born 1938 in Colorado, United States), is an American writer of historical romance novels such as Anne Avery and contemporary romance novels as Kate Holmes.
 She also signed a novel as Anne Woodard.
Marion Gibbons, née "McChesney" (born 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a British popular and prolific writer of romance and mystery novels since 1979.
 She has written numerous successful historical romance novels under (a form of) her maiden name, Marion Chesney, including the Travelling Matchmaker and Daughters of Mannerling series.
 Using the pseudonym M. C. Beaton, she has also written many popular mystery novels, most notably the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth mystery series.
 She has also written romance novels under the pseudonyms Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester.
Judith Gould is a fictional American writer of romance novels, and is the pseudonym used by co-authors: Nicholas Peter "Nick" Bienes and Rhea Gallaher, who are actually both men.
 Gould is a "New York Times" bestselling author whose books have been translated into 22 languages.
Jane Feather, née "Jane Robotham" (born 1945 in Cairo, Egypt) is a popular British–American writer of historical romance novels.
 In 1984 she wrote five contemporary romances under the pseudonym Claudia Bishop.
 She now is a New York Times bestselling, award–winning writer and she has more than ten million romance novels in print.
Sins is a 1986 CBS television miniseries starring Joan Collins.
 An adaptation of the 1982 novel of the same name by Judith Gould, it is the story of a woman who survives the horrors of the Nazi occupation of France and suffers a succession of challenges as she rises in the world of fashion.
Joyce Thies is an American writer of romance novels.
 She began her writing career as a coauthor with Janet Bieber, writing under the names Janet Joyce and Jenna Lee Joyce; together they wrote more than fifteen romances.
 Now, she writes romance novels under her real name.
Keri Arthur is a writer of fantasy, horror fiction, and romance novels from Melbourne, Australia.
 She began writing at the age of twelve and has finished twenty-six novels as of July 2012.
 Her books have received many nominations and prizes, including nods from the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards and PNR's PEARL Awards.
 Is known mainly for her paranormal romance novels such as Full moon rising, Kissing Sin to name two of her award winning novels.
 She is married and has one daughter.
Sarah MacLean (born December 17, 1978) is a New York Times bestselling American author of young adult novels and romance novels.
 Her first adult romance novel, "Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake" debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List, where it stayed for four weeks.
 Since then, all of her adult romance novels have been on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists.
 Since February 2014, MacLean has written a monthly romance novel review column for The Washington Post.
 She is a two-time winner of the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Historical Romance for "A Rogue by Any Other Name" in 2013 and "No Good Duke Goes Unpunished" in 2014.

Question: Who is the fictional American writer of romance novels that the CBS show, Sins, is based on?
Answer: Judith Gould