Comments on: Reflections on Reading…and Writing http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/07/29/reflections-on-readingand-writing/ Red Hot Reads Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:52:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Heather MacAllister http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/07/29/reflections-on-readingand-writing/#comment-3391 Heather MacAllister Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:28:06 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=1299#comment-3391 I was most influenced by my college roomie. She'd go home for the weekend and return with a box of old Harlequins. I remember whole Saturdays reading one book after another. I read the old M&B Harlequin Romances set in Europe and Australia, and the Janet Daileys, which were the only ones set in North America. I figured there weren't more U.S. books because no one but Janet Dailey was writing them. I wanted to help her. So I wrote my first book. (H) I was most influenced by my college roomie. She’d go home for the weekend and return with a box of old Harlequins. I remember whole Saturdays reading one book after another. I read the old M&B Harlequin Romances set in Europe and Australia, and the Janet Daileys, which were the only ones set in North America. I figured there weren’t more U.S. books because no one but Janet Dailey was writing them. I wanted to help her. So I wrote my first book. (H)

]]> By: jody Allen http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/07/29/reflections-on-readingand-writing/#comment-3390 jody Allen Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:26:01 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=1299#comment-3390 i have to admit a love for nancy drew as well. Plus i had every trixie belden mystery out there. then i started reading my mother's harlequins, as well as the stephen king books she'd read and cringe over. Then i started reading Danielle Steele, but after a while i quit reading when hers didnt always have a happy ending. that bothered me reading four hundred pages only to be peeved when a happy didnt happen. so needless to say i cam back to my harlequins and have been here ever since. I also credit Lori foster for leading me to temptations, and then blaze which is what i read most now. Patsy, i'm with you. not published yet! hopefully soon. good luck! good post' jody i have to admit a love for nancy drew as well. Plus i had every trixie belden mystery out there. then i started reading my mother’s harlequins, as well as the stephen king books she’d read and cringe over.

Then i started reading Danielle Steele, but after a while i quit reading when hers didnt always have a happy ending. that bothered me reading four hundred pages only to be peeved when a happy didnt happen. so needless to say i cam back to my harlequins and have been here ever since.
I also credit Lori foster for leading me to temptations, and then blaze which is what i read most now.
Patsy, i’m with you. not published yet! hopefully soon. good luck!
good post’
jody

]]> By: Patsy L Roberts http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/07/29/reflections-on-readingand-writing/#comment-3388 Patsy L Roberts Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:58:04 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=1299#comment-3388 Hmm... I have to credit: Diana Palmer Lori Foster Joan Johnston I am not published but that hasn't kept me from writing. I wrote my first story in high school and I admit it was bad, REALLY bad! and for years I stopped writing but I have picked it up again and I hope someday to be one of those published authors. :-) Hmm… I have to credit:
Diana Palmer
Lori Foster
Joan Johnston

I am not published but that hasn’t kept me from writing. I wrote my first story in high school and I admit it was bad, REALLY bad! and for years I stopped writing but I have picked it up again and I hope someday to be one of those published authors. :-)

]]> By: Julie Harrington http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/07/29/reflections-on-readingand-writing/#comment-3386 Julie Harrington Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:51:21 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=1299#comment-3386 Oh my. Let's see there is: Lucy Walker Emily Loring Diana Palmer Nora Roberts Kay Hooper Stephanie James/Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jane Castle Lori Wilde Lori Foster Rhonda Nelson There are more, but those are the names that immediately sprung to mind. :) Julie H. Oh my. Let’s see there is:

Lucy Walker
Emily Loring
Diana Palmer
Nora Roberts
Kay Hooper
Stephanie James/Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jane Castle
Lori Wilde
Lori Foster
Rhonda Nelson

There are more, but those are the names that immediately sprung to mind. :)

Julie H.

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