Missing: Claudia Dain

[reviews_and_ramblings]

It was while writing a descriptive essay in seventh grade English (that was the assignment, to write a 'descriptive essay') that Claudia first fell in love. With descriptive essays. Boys being what they are in seventh grade, there was hardly much choice. By her ninth grade year, Claudia was spending hours each week in her bedroom writing descriptive essays that heavily featured older boys (eleventh grade). She also practiced her kissing technique on a pole lamp next to her bed. It was less than satisfactory, but the writing was fun.

She attended the University of Southern California as an English major. She'd mastered kissing by this time and writing, strangely enough, was still fun. 'Strangely' because while it had become obvious to her that almost everyone enjoyed kissing, it was equally obvious that very few people enjoyed writing. This was as peculiar to her as, well, not enjoying kissing.

Clearly, something had to be done. The idea of combining kissing and writing seemed the obvious course of action. While Claudia does not claim to have invented the romance novel, she certainly has a lot of fun describing kisses and inventing men to bestow them upon. And not a one of her heroes looks remotely like a pole lamp. (And don't act like one either.)

Claudia was first published in 2000, is a two-time Rita finalist, and a USA Today Bestselling author. Which just goes to prove that you can make a career out of kissing and writing about it. After a break in her career from 2004 to 2007, Claudia came back to success with the historical series The Courtesan.

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Comments

[kika-k.livejournal.com]

Scusa se è un commento fuori posto ma sto cercando un lettore ebook che non sia quello di Amazon. Qualcosa che non costi una tombola. Cercando in internet vedo solo aggeggi importati e mi domando se oltre al costo di tutto l'amabaradam uno deve aggiungere anche un trasformatore di corrente? Bah.
Consigli? *sto sbattendo le ciglia* :-P

Grazie

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Guarda, all'inizio anche io mi sono domandata se non era il caso di comprare qualcosa, ma come te, visti i prezzi, mi limito ad usare pdf ed il mio pc portatile. Quindi non saprei, sembrerà strano, ma io non mi fido molto di tutte queste novità, preferisco il mio "vecchio" ma fidato laptop. Elisa

[kika-k.livejournal.com]

Mhh il laptop pesa se devi portarlo in giro sui mezzi pubblici. Un lettore invece entra bene in borsa. Ho visto quello della Sony (che non è in circolazione in Italia) ma costa troppo! Mi rifiuto di prendere quello di Amamzon perchè poi devi scaricare i libri solo da loro.
Oks. Farò ancora ricerche.

Ciao

[marame.livejournal.com]

I met Claudia Dain at the RWA author signing during their annual conference last July when it was held in SF. She's a lovely woman who sympathized with my experiences in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.

She told me that she understood what I was going through b/c she had felt the same way when her father passed away. We both went through a phase where we couldn't read any romance novels b/c our hearts were so heavy. She promised that things would get better and I'd rediscover my love for the genre.

Before I left her table she gave me the most beautiful Swarovski crystal key ring. Oh, and by the way, she was right!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

You gave us an insight to probably one of the reason why she had a phase during which she didn't wrote. I'm happy to hear that she is positive for the future. Elisa