Novelist, teacher, lecturer, she gives workshops and seminars at colleges and writers' conferences across the country. After RWA . . . In 1998 we are still writers, published and unpublished, but the landscape has changed. Romance writers banded together to accomplish feats that no lone writer could hope to achieve. We now have a lush, tropical land flooded with information, the gleam of respectful recognition and the strength that comes when a number of people join together in a common cause.
Editors are no longer faceless.
We know many of them by sight and even more by name and reputation. The moats have dried up and we have access to their castles. We understand more about publishing and what it takes to see our name in print. Agents vie for the attention of our writers and publishing is a more open and accessible world. American romance novelists are now printed throughout the world.