Libby Malin’s My Own Personal Soap Opera is now available online or look for it at a bookstore near you. Publishers Weekly notes that the book is “Heavy on humor . . . Malin coaxes plenty of laughs.”
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A Romantically Comic Novel That Will Set You Thinking
Fire Me: A Tale of Scheming, Dreaming and Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places by Libby Malin Sourcebooks, Inc. Publishers ISBN: 978-1-4022-1757-9 Trade Paperback : 304 Pages $12.99 (Paper) If someone handed me a romance novel telling me it was a great read with hilarious situations, interesting characters and a compelling plot I would politely smiled and say, “Thank you, but I don’t read romance fiction.” No more. I read romance fiction. To be more precise I read “humorous women’s fiction.” Libby Malin’s Fire Me. I was curious about the romance genre going into the book. My favorites, like most guys I suppose, are mysteries, thrillers, horror, science fiction and fantasy. Many people make a good living knocking out romance stories, so a lot of people must be reading them. As a fiction lover and admitted biblioholic, wanted to know what the attraction is. Fire Me is not your run of the mill Harlequin bodice ripper. In fact, it’s not a Harlequin novel at all. Fire Me has no steamy love scenes, no description of some hunk’s ripped pectorals, no lady longing for her studly cowpoke. If you pick up a copy of Fire Me, don’t waste your
Author Libby Malin Sternberg on writing for romance and YA genres
The most recent issue of The Culture Alliance’s Weekly Update (you can sign up for this newsletter here) included a focus on Cultural Influence Professional Libby Malin Sternberg. Libby is a novelist, the author of six books. She has been published by Harlequin, Dorchester, Bancroft Press, and Sourcebooks. She writes young adult fiction as Libby Sternberg and humorous women’s fiction as Libby Malin. Her first YA mystery, Uncovering Sadie’s Secrets, was an Edgar nominee. Her 2009 humorous women’s fiction, Fire Me, about a woman trying to get the pink slip, has been optioned for film. In April 2010, Sourcebooks will publish My Own Personal Soap Opera, about the head writer of a failing daytime drama who blends fantasy with real life in her stories. In September of that year, Five Star will publish her Jane Eyre-inspired tale of old Hollywood, Sloane Hall. Here are her thoughts for aspiring novelists, the challenge of writing romance novels, and the range of possibilities for those willing to produce so-called Young Adult fiction. —— If you had told me, as I began seriously devoting time to writing fiction, that I would eventually be published in humorous women’s fiction and young adult, I would have
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