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Sarah MacLean
Sarah MacLean
American Author
Born: Dec 17, 1978
Best Book Every Heroes Love Love Is
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion. Sarah MacLean
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Alas, summer sun can't last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will once again pale. Sarah MacLean
Will Skin Our Summer Once Sun Days Forever Again Cooler Grow Pale Alas Last
As winter approaches - bringing cold weather and family drama - we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth. Sarah MacLean
Family Winter Made Weather Long Nights Cold Cold Weather Drama Approaches Books Sloth Crave Bringing
The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs. Sarah MacLean
Love Adversity Great Love Is Worth Trick Some Overcoming Climbs Uphill Romance Realizing
There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards. Sarah MacLean
Sad Love Mom Love Is Single Heroine Claim Find More Perhaps She Single Mom Always Than Expected Rewarding Romance Who Many Her Cards
When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches. Sarah MacLean
Love Language Bears Cliches Shortage To Love English English Language
That first meeting - the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole story to turn into true love - is the single most important part of the whole book. Nail it, and you've won yourself readers. Sarah MacLean
Love True Love You Yourself Book Hero Slow First Important Single Heroine Meeting Part Takes True Nail Most Readers Important Part Won Where Burn Story Turn Whole Start
Perhaps summer's ephemeral nature is what inspires us to embrace the beach read. We tell ourselves that these twisted plots and wild characters are literary ice cream sundaes - extravagant treats that aren't as calorie-laden when we're wearing flip flops. Sarah MacLean
Nature Wild Summer Extravagant Ourselves Tell Characters Plots Embrace Wearing Beach Inspires Perhaps Read Literary Ice Ice Cream Ephemeral Cream Us Flip Flops Twisted Treats
Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership. Sarah MacLean
Love Great Love Is Define Ways Great Love More Myriad Powerful Perhaps Partnership None Than Rooted Honest
I'm so thrilled to have won the RITA. The award is particularly special because it is given by other romance authors. It's deeply rewarding and not a little humbling to be honored by such a talented tribe of writers. Sarah MacLean
Other Honored Tribe Given Thrilled Rita Writers Talented Particularly Because Won Authors Rewarding Romance Little Special Award Deeply Humbling
For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself. Sarah MacLean
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If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic. Sarah MacLean
Time You Think Teenager Dramatic Back Everything Your
I think we can all agree that Colin Firth falls into the George Clooney category of 'Men Who Age Like Fine Wine.' Sarah MacLean
Age Men Wine Think Colin Fine Like Category George George Clooney Falls Clooney Who Agree
By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The Thorn Birds' on my parents' bookshelf. Sarah MacLean
Time Parents Birds Thorn Bookshelf Had Genre Discovered Dusty Romance Lure Copy By The Time
Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance. Sarah MacLean
Me Heart Taught Romance Desire
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever. Sarah MacLean
Generation Think Birds Thorn Writers Like Readers Fever Romance Who Whole Suffer
I never met Colleen McCullough; if I had, I probably would have cried and made a fool of myself. Sarah MacLean
Myself Fool Made Met Cried Would Never Had
No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's more, the darker the past, the brighter the future - and the better the read. Sarah MacLean
Love Future Character History Better Result Matter Past Tell Darker More Troubled Read Built How Romance Us Novels Brighter
In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, but romance is shelved in fiction for a reason. Sarah MacLean
Life Cause Lost Real Life Say Boy Boyfriend Real Romance Fiction Your Reason
Even in 2014, when romance heroes are as varied as their genre, somewhere in them you can still always find the alpha male. Sarah MacLean
You Heroes Somewhere Find Varied Alpha Genre Always Still Male Romance Them Even
At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only into a perfect match, but into stronger, better, more admirable people. Sarah MacLean
Love Heart People Better Heroes Stronger Every Heroines Evolution Characters Admirable Lies More Only Perfect Through Match Romance Successful Novel Grow
One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever after, don't the stories lack complexity? Don't the readers get bored? Sarah MacLean
Every Too Complexity Criticisms Bored Most Genre Readers Get Lack Common Romance Ends Stories After Happily Novel Ever Ever After Prescribed
Critics seem to forget that every love story is different - that there is uniqueness in even the most commonplace of matches. Sarah MacLean
Love Love Story Every Critics Seem Most Matches Forget Different Story Commonplace Even Uniqueness
I think back on that day when 16-year-old me scribbled on some silly piece of paper for some long-forgotten high school career-day project that my dream job was 'romance novelist.' Sarah MacLean
Day Me School Job Think Back Project Paper High Dream Some High School Silly Piece Romance Novelist
In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding themselves, their power and their future through love. Sarah MacLean
Love Future Women Heroes Power Action Heroines Books Finding Through Come Surprise Themselves Should
The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility. Sarah MacLean
Best Conflict Responsibility Gentleman Nothing More Writers Know Makes Builds Quickly Rogue Than Romance

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