Even though there were some SF books with romantic elements, there weren’t many. (A favorite was the Symphony of Ages series by Elizabeth Haydon). For a while, I looked through the SFF aisles for female Fantasy authors, and found Fantasy with Romantic Elements. My favorite genres Science Fiction and Romance, apparently too far apart to intermingle. From then, I fell in love with the Romance genre. Shanna was eye-opening to me, and I loved it. It wasn’t until college, when I thought I needed something different than the assigned literary canon, that I picked up a novel by Kathleen Woodiwiss. So I continued to turn to a King novel, a collection of Asimov shorts, or another re-read of Pride & Prejudice or Wuthering Heights. I was pretty young, maybe 12ish, and I enjoyed it but I didn’t have access to them frequently. My first Harlequin read was from a basket of books my great Aunt kept full of those little pulp books. He was a SFF book club member and his cup runneth over with Asimov, Herbert, Silverburg, Heinlein, and yes, a few female authors like Andre Norton. But most importantly for my future as an author, he gave me full access to his book collection. Like any good dad, he made sure to build my Nancy Drew collection and when the time came, Jane Austen and the Brontes, but he also gave me hard cover Stephen Kings for birthdays and Christmases when I got to my teens.
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