That's part of it. But the real glory is when you finish that last page of a book you thought you could never finish. It's that sublime moment when the characters take the book from your hands and make it their own. It's that magic instant when you become a part of your characters' world and see everything from their eyes, not your own. Those are the moments that make writing worth all the long hours, the rejections, the uncertainties and insecurities, the absolute terror that your next book will never be as good as the last one.
Writing is both a joy and a curse.
It is an obsession. But a magnificent obsession, and I am always so very pleased when I can share it with readers. I will always be a romance writer. But I'm taking a different turn this year. But now I will be writing one contemporary a year for Berkley, along with one historical for them.