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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