You listen for quotes, she said. Her last newspaper job was covering television for the Miami News. She left the newspaper business in 1980 because she wanted to write books. She chose romance because that was what she read, and she loved it. While her newspaper background helped her, she found she had to think differently as a novelist.
Fiction writing is hard for a journalist.
You sit down, you have no notes. There are no interviews, no quotes. Genre romance is a manageable way to learn to write fiction. She added mysteries to her writing schedule in 1989, again because she loves reading them. Woods writes the kind of books she likes to read, fast-paced with lots of fun.