“All kinds of romances have this complex journey (inward and outward) for the characters, with emotional investment from me, the reader, and a feel-good ending. Reading a happy ending makes a reader happy – and who doesn’t want to be happy?”
‘But really, I don’t care what the trope is — in the hands of a skilled writer, even the most tried and possibly tired trope can be delivered in a fresh and entertaining way.’
We interviewed bestselling romance fiction author Anne Gracie ahead of her one-day course at Writing NSW, Romancing the Page.
You’re the author of a staggering nine novels of woman’s contemporary fiction. Did you choose this genre or did it choose you? Hm, maybe it was a bit of both? I hadn’t heard of such a thing as ‘women’s fiction’ when I first met with a publisher. She encouraged me with the old chestnut ‘write […]
Ahead of our Romancing the Page workshop, we talked romance and literary lovers with popular novelist Anne Gracie. (Please note that this workshop was originally scheduled for Mother’s Day, but will now take place on Sunday 4 May.) How did you get into romance writing? Initially I thought writing romance would be a quick and […]
