Outside of romance, I love Dorothy Cannell, Alice Hoffman, Larry McMurtry, Francine Rivers, Tami Hoag, Stephen King. I love writers with style and I love a great storyteller and when I can find both, I find it an irresistible reading experience. Nobody's Darling got many readers' votes as a most-hanky read and a favorite funny in the 1998 AAR Reader Awards . The last scene in that book was very poignant - tell us what you were trying to do there. No, seriously, I wanted to make the reader stop and think that Billy and Esmerelda could have been anyone's great-great grandmother and grandfather, even theirs.
Every human being has a story.
To me, that was one of the qualities that made the movie Titanic so poignant. Rose's and Jack's story was a fictional one, but every single person who went down on that ship had a story of their own. Once an Angel is one of AAR's publisher, Laurie Likes Books, all-time favorites. I think that particular myth has an appeal that's both romantic and erotic. Her metamorphosis forces the hero to see her as a woman and potential mate.