Hi @Zoffiel, long time no speak. I have a confession to make. I used to write regency as well as scottish highlander historical romance fiction!!! I read Mills and Boons as a young teenager and got hooked on the romance genre. After I had my first son I started to write seriously. I never made money from it. But I did belong to a writer's group of 5 women, one of whom became VERY successful and took her fanfic stories and made them into novels which became films. Sadly, once she got to be very successful I never heard from her again which is understandable as we weren't all that close, more of an acquaintance, but other members of our little writing group who I was closer to came out from the US to stay with me which was great. Eventually I switched to online UST fanfic for a few sites and at my peak I had a fan base of over 10,000 which was both wonderful and stressful. In the end the pressure from fans and deadlines became too much and I no longer enjoyed it so I gave it up. I don't have the cognitive ability to write like that anymore, but I still read romance fiction. Tessa Dare, Loretta Chase (who specialises in bodice ripping westerns!), Karen Ranney, Lorraine Heath, Sophie Jordan, Carole Matthews, Pamela Clare, are some of my favourites. But my all time favourite is Karen Marie Moning's Highlander series - talk about hot hot hot Scottish highlanders !!! in my opinion Karen is much better than Diana Galbaldon's Outlander series, although I do love Sam Heughan as Jamie on the tv adaptation. Romance novels definitively offer a great escape from everyday woes. I think there are many women who enjoy romance fiction but may not like to admit it, but I am an out and proud romance reader!
All the best
