Articles for tag: Married Name, Pen Names, Romance Writers, Romantic Fiction

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Favorite Novelist: Amanda Quick

Amanda Quick is the pseudonym for romance novelist Jayne Castle, the author’s birth name. She also currently writes under her married name Jayne Ann Krentz. Amanda Quick is the name she adapted for her body of work classified as historical romances which is always set in England, though the time frame varies from the Medieval ...

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My 10 Favorite Satirical Writers, with Examples

In my personal (and anything but humble) opinion, reading and writing satire is one of the greatest pleasures known within the literary realm. This in no way implies that satire is easy to write because nothing could be further from the truth. Many people think that satire and comedy are synonymous. They are again off ...

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Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto: The First Gothic Novel

The birth of the wildly popular and incredibly successful genre known as the Gothic Novel is most often traced back to 1765 and the publication of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto. This novel hasn’t had quite the staying power with audiences that other Gothic masterpieces ranging from Wuthering Heights to Dracula have had, but ...