The reason we need category fiction!

For me, the hardest thing about blogging has been trying to decide whether I should mention all the trials and tribulations of my life. For the last six years I seem to have been a mecca for all things depressing. In fact, it's why I began writing in the first place and, judging from some of the heartbreaking emails I've received, it's why a good number of you read it. Life can be tough. And mine has taken another downward shift.

We had good news concerning my husband's cancer - but within two days my mum was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. At this precise moment I feel cold and sick. And I'm tired from juggling all the millions of things I need to do each day.

Writing will be my solace. There is nothing better than disappearing into a world where I'm in complete control. My fellow Pink Hearters tease me for rejecting all books and movies that don't give me a happy ending - but who can blame me??

What I love most about writing for 'Romance' is that I'm able to give my characters real problems and issues - the kind we all face - and then I can give them the resolution we all desperately want for our own lives. We're having fun in the Pink Heart Society defending category fiction from those who denegrate it - but what's to defend? If the books we write and read celebrate love triumphant what's wrong with that?