![]() ![]() “You’ll see pieces of Wilmington and Claymont, where I grew up,” she says. In the backdrop of page-turning plot lines, locals will spot familiar Delaware hangouts like the Rockford Center and the defunct Red Room on the Riverfront. ![]() ”Īddicted to the high that reading provided, Winters decided to try writing. “Romance is the genre of hope,” she says. ![]() I felt like I lost potential,” Winters says, recalling that at one point someone said to her, “Oh, I forgot you were smart.”įeeling low, Winters fell into her old habit of devouring romance novels. candidate into the head of a self-published romance empire. Mom to two kids under age 6, her second pregnancy turned the former bioscience major and Ph.D. “I don’t leave my house, really quarantine hasn’t been hard for me.” “So much of the romance world exists online, so the connections I’m making are typically there,” she says. 1 bestselling contemporary romance author, says her neighbors might be surprised to learn who lives next door. Willow Winters, a USA Today and Wall Street Journal No. Elegant pastel homes, grass deep enough to lose a bocce ball in, kids’ bike paths winding in dizzying loops-it’s not exactly the backdrop you’d expect for one of the internet’s reigning queens of risqué prose. Now, it’s her empire.īehind the fountain-flanked entry to The Village of Bayberry development in Middletown is a suburban dreamtopia. A Middletown mom birthed a new career (and passion) writing romance novels. ![]()
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