So, they let me fix it, and that was my first book. They came back and said, there’s this and this and this that’s not quite right and I said, let me have a try at fixing it. She pointed to the back of a Mills & Boon romance and said, you could send it to them. It was my mother who told me, send it here. I read it over again and I thought, this is not bad, and so I started to write around, to find out where to send it. A hard beginning in Regency romanceīut, lo and behold, I found that because I wanted to find out what happened I got to the end of the book, so I actually wrote a book. I always have projects lying around for literally years, incomplete.
I assumed that I would never get to the end because you know how you start projects. I had already gone through a lot of the libraries and what Regency romances they stocked, and so in order to keep myself occupied I started writing one. After I put the kids to sleep, I would read.Īt that time in Australia there were only two Regency romances brought in a month by Mills & Boon and that was nowhere near enough. It was all very, very dry as you can imagine, so I liked to be able to read at night. At that time, back in the late 80’s, it was 1989, I used to read Regency romances because I was working as a scientist and writing scientific grants and reviewing scientific grants and papers and stuff like that. I got into writing romances because I literally ran out of Regency romances to read. Give us a little bit of a helicopter view of all of those years.
You have an international army of fans, so tell me about how you got into this career. You have been working since the early 90’s, you’ve got more than 80 books now published and many accolades including landing in the top 100 Romance of the Year many times. Jenny Wheeler: I am in awe or of having the chance to talk to you because you are one of the legends of romance publishing. Bonus: Before you make like a tree and leaf, check out these a-maize-ing Halloween puns and pumpkin quotes and puns for double the trouble.Stephanie Laurens: Thank you. There’s truly never a bad time for a ghould pun, and you'll have friends falling for your latest one-liners in no time. Whether you’re looking to wow (or embarrass) your family, or (pumpkin) spice up your Instagram feed with a witty caption, you’ll be pumpkin out puns like it's nobody's business this fall!įrom cute jokes about leaves, pumpkins, pies, and everything in between, these jokes will have your friends thinking "Aww shucks, I wish I thought of that." And, no matter how acorn-y or downright nutty these fall puns may seem, they’re the perfect way to lighten the mood (or even add some pie-zazz to your fall crafts). The only way to make your pumpkin picking, hay riding, and other autumn family activities even more wonder fall this season? By rattling off a few hilariously festive fall puns, obvi! If you love a gourd play on words just as much as we do, then you’ve come to the right place for the best selection of juvenile jokes and fall puns that will leaf you smiling.