Romance Authors Share The Book That Got Them Into Romance

Romance authors like Alyssa Cole and Tessa Bailey talk about the book that started it all for them.

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00:00The book that got me into romance is something that I found in my 4th grade teacher's little

00:11closet library, so thank you, Ms. Feskin.

00:14The book is called Anne of the Wild Rose Inn, yes, I still have a copy, and it was a middle

00:20grade romance, young adult romance, and it is set during the Revolutionary War.

00:27The heroine's family owns an inn, and you know, there's intrigue and drama from the

00:33Redcoats and the Patriots, and although I did love romance stories, this is the first

00:39actual, I guess, book that was a full genre romance format that I loved, and yeah, this

00:46is what really made me want to write romance.

00:49The book that got me into romance was Lisa Claypass's The Wallflower Series.

00:54I know I was supposed to pick just one book, but I can't.

00:56That whole series made me fall in love with romance.

00:59Growing up, all I really cared about when I was watching a movie or reading a book or

01:04even listening to stories about real life people was the romantic plot, the romantic

01:10subplot.

01:11That was all that fed me, so when I found books that basically the entire thing was

01:17about the romance, I just realized I had found my home.

01:20The book that got me into reading romance was Hidden Fires by Sandra Brown.

01:25I found it in my grandmother's luggage at a family reunion, and I couldn't put it down.

01:31There was something about it that just spoke to me so deeply.

01:34The book that got me into romance was Full Tilt, which is, I think, a Janet Abonovich

01:40book that came out in 2003-ish.

01:44I was 12 at the time, and I snuck it out of my sister's room, and I hid behind my desk

01:50in my room, and I read it in one afternoon.

01:54That was the first romance I ever read, and I don't think I ever really look back.