United States, Author March 28, 1977
Lauren Willig is a New York Times bestselling author of historical novels. Her books follow a collection of Napoleonic-Era British spies, similar to the Scarlet Pimpernel as they fight for Britain and fall in love.
Also known as Novelist
Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.
I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.
People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.
I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching.
I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person.
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