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This Author Spotlight features a return visit with Amazon bestselling author Elle Lothlorien. This is a follow-up interview, but for people who are not already familiar with your work, tell us what kind of books you write. Currently, I write what has been described as “smart contemporary romantic comedy.” As you can probably tell by the titles, all of my novels are modern retellings loosely based on fairy tales and children’s stories: The Frog Prince , Sleeping Beauty , the “alternate-ending version” Sleeping Beauty WAKES UP! and Alice in Wonderland . Yes, it’s difficult to drop them into one specific sub-genre of romance—at one point I thought “mysterious, contemporary romantic-hoot” would work swell but was told that the category didn’t exist—but it keeps things interesting for both writer and reader since the stories are very different from each other. What these stories have in common is that they’re definitely stories for...

This week's Author Spotlight features Romantic Comedy novelist Elle Lothlorien. 1.      How did you get into writing? I had professors in college who urged me to become a writer, but the desire just wasn't there.  About ten years ago, I woke up in the middle of the night with a story idea.  I sat on the floor of my bedroom with my laptop and began my first book, a literary novel.  It turned out that writing an entire book was much harder than writing a college paper!  I finished about 25% of it before abandoning it.  My second attempt was a suspense novel. I finished about 50% of it before the same thing happened.  My third attempt, the thriller VIRGIN ,  was the first book I ever completed; however, it was my romantic comedy THE FROG PRINCE (fourth attempted novel and second completed for anyone keeping score) that was published first. 2.      What do you like best (...