Pamela: It's no secret that you love to travel and do a lot of research for your books on site. I adored those novels and admired those amazing authors. But I chose it mostly because I'd grown up reading Victoria Holt and Georgette Heyer. I moved, and just wrote another book.Īs to why romance, the analytical side of me saw that the genre dominated the fiction market. And just a few days after I finished it, my husband's company offered him a lucrative transfer - to a right-to-work state, I belatedly learned. Write a book!' I had been threatening to do so, it's true.

My BFF said, 'You have a degree in journalism, for pity's sake. But my workaholic ways did me in, and by week two I was going crazy. So I had the chance to take a couple of months off, and I seized it. Liz: Honestly, I was between jobs - I was labor relations at the time, working in the chemical and aerospace industries, and labor contracts are cyclic. What pushed you to take up the pen? Why did you choose romance? Pamela: You started writing fiction later in life. We asked her to spare a few moments to talk with us about her latest release, A Bride By Moonlight, and what goes into creating the characters so many readers have come to love. If one were to try to describe what sets her books apart, one might end up with the word 'unconventional.' From her heroes and heroines to her secondary characters to the sensuality of her stories, Carlyle writes with a unique voice that makes each book memorable. Her lush Regencies and Victorian romances have landed her on both the USA TODAY and New York Times best-seller lists. Liz Carlyle is first and foremost a storyteller, the kind of author who puts her energy and her time into the craft of entertaining her readers.

A Bride by Moonlight by Liz Carlyle