The genre was just too powerful to resist. People who knew me before I started writing have a hard time reading my books because my real voice is so present that it's hard to get that willing suspension of disbelief. And people who have read the books and then meet me say that I sound just like my heroines. But life experiences, not a lot. Very few, and most of them are about the dogs.
Writing is an incredibly arrogant act.
The responsibility inherent in the act of publishing a book is huge because that reader could have spent those four hours playing with her kid or reading Toni Morrison or running a marathon or making love or any number of things, but she gives them to me. So in that four hours, I owe her everything I've got. That's what every writer owes her reader. The western is enjoying a re-emergence in popular culture, film, and television as well as fiction, and the romance genre is no exception. Here are three wonderfully told tales, from three gifted storytellers, that vividly portray landscapes of the Old West.