Surprise! A Monday Video! I did another video at the RWA literacy signing, but instead of lip synching and fun songs, I asked folks to share with me their favorite romances and characters. Here's the result!
I hope you enjoy this peek at the RWA Literacy Signing, and some of the first and favorite romances of the folks who were there. Thank you to the people who participated and let me take their pictures with my weird dry-erase sign.
Since I know some folks can't see the video, here's a transcript of the visuals:
Every romance author is also a romance reader.
It all begins with the books we remember and love.
Then, there are photos of authors holding a “HELLO MY NAME IS” dry erase board, each answering a question about their favorite romance novels. The order of appearance is:
Molly O'Keefe:
My favorite romance is The Shadow and the Star
An anonymous reader says the first romance she read was Lady Sophia's Lover by Lisa Kleypas
Liliana Hart:
The first romance I read was Trust Me by Jayne Ann Krentz
Lynn Raye Harris:
The romance I always tell my friends to read: Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale
Marissa Doyle:
Best Hero Ever? Captain Wentworth (Persuasion)
Laura Drake:
Best Hero Ever? Jamie Fraser (Outlander)
Vicky Dreiling:
The romance I always tell my friends to read: Mr. Perfect (aka Lord Perfect) Loretta Chase
PC Cast:
The first romance I read was The Flame and the Flower
Robyn Carr:
My favorite romance is The Wolf and the Dove
Dianne Moggy:
The first romance I read was Anne of Green Gables
Erin (hiding behind her sign):
My favorite romance is Mr Perfect by Linda Howard
Avery Flynn:
The first romance I read was The Thorn Birds
Christi Barth:
The first romance I read was Shanna
Beverly Jenkins:
The first romance I read was 17th Summer
Chelsey Emmelhainz:
The romance I always tell my friends to read: When Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa James
Erika Tsang:
The first romance I read was Forever by Judy Blume (I was 11)
Jeffe Kennedy:
The first romance I read was Indigo Nights
Sharon Kendrick:
Best Hero Ever? Mickey Rourke in 9 1/2 Weeks or Angel Heart
The first romance I read was Angelique
Leslie Kelly:
The first romance I read was The Flame and the Flower
Beverley Kendall
The roman I always tell my friends to read: On Dublin Street
Sharon Lathan:
Best Hero Ever? Mr Darcy
Andrea Laurence:
The first romance I read was Skye O'Malley
Kimberly Kincaid
My favorite romance is Hot Under Pressure by Louisa Edwards
Kathryn Roberts:
The first romance I read was Fancy Pants, Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Sheila Roberts
The romance I always tell my friends to read: The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer
Maggie Robinson:
The first romance I read was Little Women
Dorien Kelly
The first romance I read was Irish Thoroughbred
Joysann:
The first romance I read was Hot Target by Suzanne Brockmann
Sarah Wendell:
The first romance I read was Midsummer Magic by Catherine Coulter
Barbara Vey
The romance I always tell my friends to read is Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
Sarah Walker
The romance I always tell my friends to read: Sniper Shots by Kathy Lane
Dianne Venetta
My favorite romance is one where the man works long and hard for his woman!
Julie Ann Walker
The romance I always tell my friends to read: anything by Suzanne Brockmann – she rocks!
Pam Jaffee:
The romance I always tell my friends to read: Kiss an Angel, SEP
Angela James
Best Hero Ever: Roarke!
Kristan Higgins:
The first romance I read was Shanna by Kathleen Woodiwiss
Cathy Maxwell:
The romance I always tell my friends to read: The Wolf and the Dove
Kerry Buckley
The first romance I read was Flowers in the Attic
(which we then discussed after I took the picture – even though it's not technically a romance, boy howdy is it the gateway drug for many readers!)
Jude Deveraux:
The romance I always tell my friends to read: Cold Comfort Farm
Jennifer Lohmann
The first romance I read was Truly Madly Deeply by Susan Anderson
Tessa Woodward
The first romance I read was Christina Dodd's Rules of Surrender
HelenKay Dimon
The first romance I read was The Bride by Julie Garwood
When we come together to celebrate the books we love we can raise over $50,000 to support literacy.
Romance rules.
Wonderful seeing you again, Sarah. Thanks for including me in the video. You did an awesome job!
It was a pleasure – you are so welcome!!
What a treat! Thank you. It was interesting to see some of the books people thought of as first romance: Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, The Thorn Birds, Cold Comfort Farm. And how many of us would be here at SBTB if not for Ms Woodiwiss?
I’m a librarian and really should be better, but I suck at titles and authors (sorry! I could describe everything about the cover but the title and author) and didn’t think “that yellow book set in Idaho” would work on the sign. My book should have been:
Truly, Madly, Yours by Rachel Gibson.
That book hits all of my happy buttons. ALL OF THEM. Zip, zap, zing, I only have to think of the book to feel happy.
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The price of being surrounded by books all day is that I forget the titles of 77% of them (but I can always describe the cover!)
Great video!
I find discussions of first romances endlessly fascinating. Partly because I don’t remember when I read my first romance – I know I read Little Women in the 5th grade, but did I read it before or after Anne of Green Gables? No idea. Plus, I didn’t really read those for the romance, more for the coming of age stuff.
I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I do vividly remember *reading* my first genre romance when I was 14 (borrowed a category from a friend on a church bus trip) – but, sadly, all I remember about that book is that there was SEX in it (OMG).
What fun! Thanks for including me, Sarah. Always nice to see you. 🙂 I could not for the life of me remember the name of the first romance I read. It was a Harlequin Presents though. 🙂 Such fun questions!
Loved this!
This was totally awesome, and such fun to participate in!
Word verification is “room51”, which is like Area 51 but much more intimate.
This turned out fantastic! Thanks for including me in what must have been a time consuming video to create. 🙂
What fun Sarah! Thanks so much for stopping by and including me!