Patience Bloom
Patience Bloom is a senior editor at Harlequin Books and focuses specifically on Harlequin Romantic Suspense, which gives her full license to indulge in her love of the thriller genre and all things suspense.
Her 2014 book is Romance Is My Day Job: A Memoir of Finding Love at Last.
From Bloom's Q & A with Joanna Scutts at Biographile:
Biographile: Did you ever think about telling your own story as fiction, or did you always want it to be a memoir?Learn more about the book and author at Patience Bloom's website.
Patience Bloom: Before Romance Is My Day Job even came close to a publisher, it was my NaNoWriMo book for 2010 -- and accidentally nonfiction. I didn’t think I would ever show the story to anyone. Then I decided to fictionalize it, which took about a year. Suddenly, the opportunity to write it as a memoir came about and I wrote an entirely new draft, which is the one out now. So there are three different takes on this story -- two of which will remain buried on a flash drive.
BIOG: Writing your own romantic ending must have felt at times like tempting fate. Was there a particular point in your relationship with your husband when you felt that it would be safe to write about it in this way?
PB: Yes! Throughout the entire experience of writing this book and even some points afterwards, I thought...[read on]
The Page 99 Test: Romance Is My Day Job.
Writers Read: Patience Bloom.
My Book, The Movie: Romance Is My Day Job.
--Marshal Zeringue
