Maryville intrigue author hits success with favorite genre

Who are a intrigue writers of a world, and more
importantly, who are a successful ones?

In Maryville, it’s Janice Maynard, mom of a United
Methodist minister, mom of dual daughters, grandmother of 3 and former facile school
teacher.

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Maynard, who taught kindergarten and second class for 16 years in Sevier County, sold
her initial intrigue novel in 1996. She wrote her initial 4 for Kensington Publishing, afterwards several
for Penguin before signing on with Harlequin a few years ago.

There are now 20 books with
her name on a cover and her characters inside who fundamentally find themselves in some sassy,
spicy, suacy situations. Two of them have done a USA Today Best-Selling Books list. She has
contracts for 4 some-more that will be entrance out between now and Jan 2013.

Maynard’s
great aunt can take some of a credit for instilling a adore for books and present of a creative
imagination. Maynard was only a teen when she had sum liberties to raid her aunt’s book
collection.

“She was my grandmother’s sister and they lived in a same house,” Maynard
said. “She would let me lift anything off her bookcase. we am certain we review things we never should
have during that age.”

And there were a tumble festivals during her youth high propagandize where grocery
carts full of Harlequins grabbed Maynard’s attention. “They were all 10 cents a square and we was a
book junkie,” this author admitted.

Just starting out

She and husband, Charles,
lived in Chattanooga and antiquated in high school. They were married after their sophomore year at
college and managed to connoisseur on time. Charles became a United Methodist apportion and Janice, a
teacher. They have dual children. Janice pronounced while she positively desired being a teacher, she had
always personally hoped she could take a talent for essay and spin it into a second career. One
with no early mornings.

One day she came home after a day of training to find a summary on
her responding machine. It was from an editor meddlesome in her story pitch. And that’s how it all
started.

Not that those 20 books all came in fast succession. Maynard pronounced as her two
daughters were entering high propagandize and college, she didn’t do many to foster that new career.
Kensington gave her a agreement for some-more books in 2003, and Maynard done a intelligent preference in 2004
to acquire an representative and see how distant a dream can go.

“That done a outrageous difference,” Maynard
said. “Some publishers won’t demeanour during anything unless it’s from an agent. The other thing is, if I
send something to a publisher, it competence be 9 or 10 months before we hear anything. You are just
eating adult large blocks of time. An representative can cut that approach down.”

When Maynard’s career in
romance essay began to take off, her father was executive of Friends of a Smokies. Later he
worked in fundraising for a Holston Conference of a United Methodist Church. Today, Charles
serves as Maryville district superintendent for a conference.

Reader
reaction

So what kinds of greeting does Janice get from folks who review her sensual
novels, meaningful a clever couple she has to a United Methodist church?

“If there are people
out there who consider it’s terrible, they haven’t told me,” she said. “Most people are very
complimentary.”

If you’ve never review a intrigue novel, they do concentration on a relationship, and
there is a happy ending. But, Maynard pronounced they are a lot like other genres. There is no ‘formula’
to crafting a stories of adore and passion. Murder mysteries contingency have a murder, a western has a
certain locality and crime stories have their troops presence, she said. That’s a season of genre
fiction.

“Romances are like any other kind of novella solely a concentration of a story is a
relationship rather than a troops manoeuvre or a investigator case, etc.,” she explained. “I really
believe many people, even men, would find they suffer a work of many intrigue writers I
know.”

Husband Charles is also a writer, carrying published array of books for school
libraries in further to a book on a Blue Ridge Mountains. He is also a storyteller and avid
outdoorsman who advocates for a well-kept planet.

Janice pronounced a demographics of who reads
romance novels are women ages 20 adult to 80. She pronounced of all a paperback novella sole in a U.S.,
over 50 percent are intrigue novels. About 10 percent of a readership is men, she
said.

From a heart

After essay 20 such books with some-more on a way, one
might start deliberation Maynard a attribute expert, that she says she is not. She does have 37
years of matrimony to pull from, and a genuine seductiveness in a tellurian heart.

“I am just
fascinated by relations between group and women,” she said. “Some work out and some don’t. Some
are propitious to find their soulmate early on. There are others who have never found a right person.
I trust in a energy of a attribute that’s unequivocally strong.”

Romance novels are a source
of party and they exhibit personal encounters some feel worried articulate about.
Maynard pronounced God combined us to suffer sex, that is a healthy partial of marriage. She doesn’t write
anything spiritless women or victimizing a womanlike character.

“Romance novella during a best
celebrates a fact that when a male and a lady find adore and dedicate to marriage, all of life’s
hardships turn a bit easier to bear,” she said. “I consider if some-more couples motionless to review romance
novels together, matrimony would be a lot some-more fun.”

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