Jessica asked Rachael Miles:

Why did the romance genre strike your fancy when you were considering writing a novel?

Rachael Miles As an researcher, I focused on popular writing and on 19thC women writers, especially one, the Countess of Blessington, who was the most financially successful woman writer of the 1830s and 1840s. And one day I realized that though I spent lots of time reading popular women's fiction of the 19thC, I didn't do the same with women's fiction of my OWN time. So, I started reading romance and reading and reading, and I started analyzing how it worked in terms of techniques and strategies. So, when I finally started writing, it made sense to write romance...besides, who doesn't love a HEA? What strikes your fancy with romance?

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