I haven’t given much thought to where romance is today. I assume you’re talking about romance publishing. It’s not much of a consideration for me. Wait, it’s not a consideration at all. I’m guessing that’s a good and bad thing.

I’m not particularly aware of trends which I suppose works for and against me. Probably the only area outside of traditional historicals that interests me is time travel, but if I did something like that it would be as much about the “science” as it would be about the romance. I’d probably veer more toward sci-fi. I wrote a contemporary a few years back that’s fairly different from my historicals. We’ll see.

I don’t know enough to say whether the historical is dead. It seems to have a loyal base.

I’m a Jeffrey Deaver fan. Gabaldon, of course. Mary Balogh. Jennifer Cruisie’s Bet Me was to die for. SEP – especially listening to them on tape. Classics that I love are The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. The book that means the most to me for a lot of different reasons is Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.

I’m going to fudge this answer and say the Compass Club series. That’s because it was such hard work because of the intertwining story lines. Sometimes I imagine pulling the 4 stories together into one massive book.