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Thursday, February 09, 2006
why I love Silhouette Desire
As some of you may know--& others of you may not :-)--I started my publishing career in historical romance. I wrote six western-set historicals for Leisure Books before making the jump to Silhouette Desire. And very often, I get questions about that from readers. When are you going to write another historical? (Not anytime soon, I don't think, even tho I enjoyed them.) Why did you switch to contemporaries? (Because the historical market wasn't doing very well & if I wanted to keep writing, I needed to make a deliberate & educated change.)
But it was more than that, to be completely honest. It had a lot more to do with the fact that I'd always wanted to write contemporary romance & I'd always absolutely loved the Silhouette Desire line. I remember reading them way back when Jayne Ann Krentz (writing as Stephanie James) & Elizabeth Lowell were writing them. The ones that come most quickly to my mind are Jayne/Stephanie's The Bodyguard & Elizabeth's Too Hot to Handle. These were sensual, passionate, emotional novels that pulled me right in. And thru the years, I continued to read Desires, discovering authors like Leanne Banks, Barbara McCauley, Maureen Child, Ryanne Corey... I could give you titles for each of these authors, too, but then we'd be here all day. :-) I would read them every chance I got...& for what it's worth, Desires are absolutely perfect for reading on the treadmill or the plane. :-D
So when it came time for me to take the plunge & try my hand at a contemporary romance, Desire seemed the perfect--& most obvious--choice. And what I discovered, almost by accident, was that writing for Desire felt like coming home. I love the focus on the hero & heroine & the romance, without too much secondary plot or too many secondary characters to muddy the waters. I love the level of sensuality & the sexual tension I'm allowed to build on every page. I love the quick pace of the stories & the short length of the books...which is why I say they're absolutely perfect for reading on the treadmill & plane; the Desire line's motto should be "Everyone has time to read a Desire!" :-)
But what I'd like to know is why you read Desires. Do you remember the feeling you had when you first discovered the line, fell in love, & realized you had to have more? Or the first Desire title or author you picked up that got you hooked?
I do. And I'm getting this overwhelming urge to dig it out of my Keeper Box & read it again! :-)
posted by Heidi Betts at 11:23 AM
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