Lifetime Achievement Award for Series Romances from Romantic Times
Lindsay writes:
Dear Readers,
I'll be at the Romantic Times Conference in St. Louis, Missouri from April 26 to May 1st. If any of you are going, please look me up at the Book Fair! I've also just found out that I was selected to win the Lifetime Achievement Award for series romances. I'm very grateful for being chosen. In the years as a series romance author, I have pioneered in a number of areas:
I began the sub-genre of military romances and this began with "Captive of Fate", Silhouette Special Edition, in 1983. I continued to write about the military to this day, but now, twenty years later, it is now a red hot 'fad'. I'm glad because civilians need to understand that the people who protect us are human beings deserving of our support, respect and gratefulness.
I showed Silhouette that a writer could create a 3-book series and have it come out one month after another. They had their questions that it could be accomplished. So, I wrote the Travis Trilogy that was never given a 'label' to tell readers it was a 3-book series. Those books were:
">Red Tail", Silouette Desire, (Travis Trilogy, Book I)
"Dare to Love", Harlequin Temptation (Travis trilogy, Book II)
"The Right Touch", Harlequin Temptation (Travis trilogy, Book III)Having proved that I could do it, the Silhouette people allowed me to create an 'official' 3-book series. This began the Morgan's Mercenaries ongoing series (Love and Glory, Silhouette Special Edition and they were:
"A Question of Honor", SSE, 2.95, (Love & Glory Series, Book I) Morgan's Mercenaries (Noah, Morgan's younger brother's story)
"No Surrender," SSE, #535, 2.95, (LGS, Book II) Morgan's Mercenaries (Aly's story--Morgan's younger sister)
"Return of a Hero", SSE, 2.95, (LGS, Book III) Morgan's Mercenaries (Morgan's story)On another front, I was pioneering with a few other writers, adventure, suspense being written into the romance books. Nowadays, 2005, there is hardly a romance series book that doesn't have some kind of "action" in it as a result.
So, I'm proud of my contributions and ideas that have evolved over time to enhance, I hope, the romance series industry. Judging from what my readers say, they love all the innovations.
And it's nice to be acknowledged by Romantic Times Magazine, to be an innovator to Series Romances.
Warmly,
Lindsay