This week LUV's spotlighting Nancy Warren, who's the USA Today Bestselling author of more than 100 novels. LUV: You have published a wide range of editorial from Harlequin romances to The Vampire Knitting Club. Can you tell us about your writing journey. Nancy: Writing is the one thing I’ve always been good at. At school the teachers would read out my stories to the class and I got hooked on the idea that I could make up stories in my head and people would enjoy them. I’m still amazed at this. I was overjoyed when I sold to Harlequin in 2000 after winning a writing contest. I’ve always been a fan of romantic comedy and that’s what I wrote, fun, sexy contemporary romances with humor. Then I got divorced and I couldn’t write romance for a while. Suddenly, killing people seemed a lot more fun. I turned to writing mystery. I’d had the idea for the Vampire Knitting Club for a while and around this time a woman named Amanda Lee started writing mysteries featuring witches. I thought, aha! There’s my genre. I began the series about a witch from Boston who inherited a knitting shop in Oxford, England (where I was living at the time) and discovers there are vampires living below the shop who have a late-night knitting club. It took off and now I have The Vampire Book Club set in Ireland and The Vampire Knitting Club: Cornwall which is a spinoff series. I feel very lucky to be able to write full time and make a decent living.

Posted by LUV Team at 2023-12-11 23:12:50 UTC