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Darn It, Who Cares!

My name is Lauren Dane and I write romance. What’s more is that I like to read it too.

Making Chase by Lauren Dane

Greetings from RT!!

As I write this it’s 2 am and I’ve danced a lot, had about eight bottles of water and my voice is already failing but so far, Romantic Times 2008 has been a lovely time.

Why Romance?

Recently I’ve bumped into a lot of friends I haven’t seen in a few years. Many of them are my BR friends – “before romance” so when they see me and I fill them in on my life I get a wide variety of responses. Most of them, I’m happy to say, are joyful and interested.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

I’d planned on ranting about how a note home to parents in my oldest son’s backpack had grammatical errors in it and how I actually got out a pen and corrected it. But instead I’ll talk about something you might be interested in.

Much has been made about the “respectability” of the romance genre from many angles.

Reading Between The Lines Is Now Available!

Genre: Paranormal Romance, Red Hots!
ISBN: 1-59998-672-8
Length: Novel
Price: $5.50

Celtic language expert Haley O’Brian is thrilled when she gets the chance to translate a scroll written in Ogham, an ancient Celtic text used in magic and divination. While translating the text, she unwittingly frees Conall macCormac’s Fae soul from a millennia-old curse that kept him imprisoned in a human body, lifetime after lifetime.

The end of the curse is just the beginning of the magic for Haley and the ridiculously sexy Conall. He takes her into the world of his people, the Daoine Sidhe, where she begins to learn of her own Fae heritage, carve out a new path for herself, and embrace her new-found power.

But their happiness is marred by Ninane, the jealous Fae who cursed Conall a thousand years ago. She will stop at nothing to have him for her own, including the murder of Haley’s family.

Determined to bring Ninane to justice, Haley must ask Conall to undergo the ultimate test of love-to stand aside and let her fight her own battles.

Lauren Dane
www.laurendane.com

Menage? Why Yes, Thank You!

Disclaimer – this is of course how one author and reader approaches the subject. I’m not an expert, I just write books. Other people write books in different ways so of course, your mileage may vary and all that jazz.

I like writing ménage books. Still, they’re certainly not all I write by any stretch. Only four of my novels are full ménages (as in – the relationship focus is on a triad). There are reasons for that of course, generally I just let the story go where it wants to and sometimes it wants two heroes, sometimes not.

Chase Brothers: Chased

Today, book three in my Chase Brothers Series is out! This is Marc and Liv’s story and both characters were way more complicated than I’d imagined originally. You can read an excerpt and pick it up from Samhain as well as checking out the other books in the series. You can also read an excerpt at my website There’s a blurby bit behind the cut!

Redeeming Bad Hero Behavior

In the last week I’ve received two hardbacks I was dying for and gobbled them both up in one night each. Both books featured heroes with tortured pasts, both very strong men and one I regard as probably the best romance hero ever written. Both books had the hero doing really dumb things though and in both cases, I’m not sure there was enough scraping on his part to redeem himself. (Although both books were worth every hardback cent, by the way and both authors are still auto buys for me)

Friend of a Friend - Why Secondary Characters Can Make A Story Special

I know I have a tendency to write a lot of secondary characters. This crime has been reined in, in large part due to editors who say, “you have too many characters, cut them.” I think it’s part of my personality, I never shut up and neither does that pesky muse. There’s a constant stream of stuff flowing through my head when I start a book and characters all sort of duke it out to be in it. I have to wrestle them and my tendency to have big families in my books.