What led up to the publication of Devils Love?
You know, I have thought about this many times, and I think I am one of the very lucky ones who happened to be in the right place at the right time. The first book I wrote was a medieval (I had just read a lot of Sharon Kay Penman books). The book was too long and too rambling, but I discovered an awful lot about sustaining a story over dozens of chapters. I threw that into the closet and wrote Devil’s Love in 1997, went and got a book, How to Get Published, or something like that, sent a query to four agents simultaneously, and landed one within a week. I had a contract with Dell two weeks after that. I knew nothing about the industry or even the romance genre, I had never heard of the Romance Writer’s Association or Romantic Times or Publisher’s Weekly. Everything happened so quickly that I wondered if perhaps it really wasn’t very hard to get published. I know better now, believe me! I know what a lucky, lucky chick I was in that my work hit my agent and the market at exactly the ri
