Tosca Musk Quotes

As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

Even the geekiest of guys could get the girl if he read every romance novel that came out in any given month.

Like so many others, I came to romance during the golden age of it - Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Johanna Lindsey and Jude Deveraux were at the height of their historical domination. Without those women, I wouldn't be a romance novelist.

When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.

I love historical romance, absolutely love it.

I write romance because I love to read romance.

There are two words that send romance authors into spasms of rapture: 'Downton Abbey.'

I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels.

There's a horrible stereotype of both the romance writer and the romance reader as somehow undereducated and unprofessional, when in fact there are a number of incredibly well-educated professional women who have chosen to leave their other careers and go into writing romance.

We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.

If you want to talk about a subject that is important to women, romantic fiction is the place to talk about it because that's where your audience is.

When a group of ultra-opinionated, uber-creative romance authors get together, I'm sure you guys can imagine how fast the ideas start flying!

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.

One of the reasons people like romances is that they're artificially shaped to give a pattern and meaning. It's not as messy as everyday life or as difficult or thorny.

America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love to mock them. And secretly, we believe we're better than they are.

One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.

Romance writers and readers have one thing in common: We love men.

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

Romance readers love a wealthy hero, and why not? There's value in a man able to hire a helicopter, a coach and six horses, or a collection of werewolves to do his bidding - and the bidding of the lucky woman on his arm.

I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading and enjoying romance novels at the time, the first two unpublished manuscripts I wrote were both romances. I sold my third novel, 'Call After Midnight,' to Harlequin Intrigue after submitting it unagented.