Author Sheila Stewart on Writing Romance
Right in the middle of an ordinary life,
Love gives us a fairy tale.
I found this quote while on line one day and thought how perfect it was. I know I’ve been living a fairy tale for more than twenty three years now. My husband is my prince, my best friend and sole owner of my heart. In case you haven’t figured it out, I’m a hopeless romantic. And that is why I love to write romance.
As long as I can remember, I was a dreamer. I wasn’t those typical little girls who cringed when they saw two people kiss. I felt warmed by the sweet embrace. As I grew into a gangly awkward teenager, I often daydreamed about star crossed lovers coming together through adversity to find a love that is forever binding. To know a love that is all consuming was a wish I had for myself. When I was seventeen, I learned what true love was for the first time, and it still envelopes my heart now.
Romance is as much a part of me as my own limbs. I always want that happily ever after for everyone. I want them to know the feeling of being wrapped in a warm soft loving embrace that holds you through thick and thin, carries you when you can no longer walk, picks you up when you fall, and is there at your side to light the fires of your heart when it feels so cold. I pity those that love has not embraced.
I am a story teller at heart. I can weave a tale of mystery, suspense, horror and comedy but in the end, it’s the romance that brings it to a close. I can’t imagine not having love in my heart and because I have the ultimate fairy tale of a romance in my relationship with my husband, I’m able to give the readers a love story that will melt their heart and stay with them long after the last words are read.
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